Sale 1989
New York
|
18 April 2008
Price realised
USD 10,625
Estimate
A Soviet Porcelain Figure of a Turbaned Lute Player State Porcelain Factory After a model by Natalia Danko, the figure in exotic costume sitting cross-legged on pillows and a mat, marked under base with underglaze green hammer, sickle, and cog 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
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For a comparable figure, see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics, New York, 1990, p. 99, no. 102.
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