Fabergé, Imperial & Revolutionary Art

Fabergé, Imperial & Revolutionary Art

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 371. Radio for the Village: a rare Soviet porcelain figural group, Naum Kongiser, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1927.

Radio for the Village: a rare Soviet porcelain figural group, Naum Kongiser, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1927

Auction Closed

November 26, 05:37 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

a commemorative piece for the 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, modelled as an old man sat on a tree trunk listening on headphones as the standing young boy beside him plays the radio perched on a second tree stump, showing the 'elimination of the illiterate population' (Likbez)by the younger generation, incised on the base N. Kongiser 1927, with rubbed exhibition stamp under base and blue hammer and sickle


height 25cm; 9 7/8 in.

As is evidenced by the exhibition stamp under the base of the model, this is the original sculpture created by Kongiser for the exhibition Art of the Peoples of the USSR exhibition in Moscow, held in 1927 in honour of the 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

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