BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, EARLY 1930S

The present figure of Udarnitsa (shock-worker) by Danko brings to the fore the Suprematist enthusiasm for geometry and limited range of colours, frequently on a white ground. The chart beside the woman evokes the Suprematist architectons pioneered by Kazimir Malevich.

For a comparable model from the State Hermitage Museum, see Exhibition catalogue, The Voice of the Time Soviet Porcelain: Art and Propaganda, St Petersburg, 2017, p. 94, no. 27, and T. Kudryartseva, Circling the Square, Avant-garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia, London, 2004, pp. 70, 99, no. 38.