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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