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For a similar figure, see Kuskovo, Porcelain Museum, Soviet Artistic Porcelain 1918-1923; Catalogue, (Moscow, 1962), p.38 illustrated.
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BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1923, WITH UNDERGLAZE GREEN AND BLACK MARKS
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A Soviet porcelain propaganda group of the Fifth Anniversary of the Red Army
by the State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1923, with underglaze green and black marks
Realistically modelled with a standing Red Army soldier holding a red flag and a partisan with a rifle, with five volumes, the spines inscribed in Russian 'History of the Red Army of the RSFSR', the open volume with '1918-1923 to the Leaders of the Red Army', on shaped ground, after the original design by N.Ia. Dan'ko, marked inside base
7.1/8 in. (18 cm.) high
by the State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1923, with underglaze green and black marks
Realistically modelled with a standing Red Army soldier holding a red flag and a partisan with a rifle, with five volumes, the spines inscribed in Russian 'History of the Red Army of the RSFSR', the open volume with '1918-1923 to the Leaders of the Red Army', on shaped ground, after the original design by N.Ia. Dan'ko, marked inside base
7.1/8 in. (18 cm.) high