A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A GIRL WITH A CAT
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTION
A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A GIRL WITH A CAT

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1917, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1920

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A GIRL WITH A CAT
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1917, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1920
Realistically modelled as a sitting figure of a girl, wearing a white dress and a blue hat, holding a grey cat in her hands, on a rectangular base with cut corners, with fluted sides and painted flowers at the corners, the top painted with geometric motifs, repeated on the lower rim, marked under base with masked Russian Provisional Government green factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1920', also with blue overglaze artist's Cyrillic initials 'VR.' for Varvara Rukavishnikova, impressed with Cyrillic initials 'KZ.' possibly for modeller Konstantin Zakharov
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Mikhail Alexeyevich Sergeev (1888-1965), scientist and economist, one of the first commissars of the State Bank of the USSR.
Acquired from the estate of the above by the parents of the present owner.

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For a comparable model of a girl with a cat from the period of Nicholas I held in the collection of the Kuskovo Palace, Moscow, see M. Korablev, M. Sokolenko, Antologiia Russkogo Farfora XVIII-nachala XX veka, vol. 6, part 3, Moscow, 2014, p. 52.

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