A soviet porcelain figure of the "Red Guard", Vasilii Kuznetsov, State Porcelain Manufactory, circa 1918

after a design by the artist, clad in black with a red shirt and belt with a rifle resting at his side, with impressed factory mark partially obliterated and artist signature A?

Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky: Revolutionary Ceramics, Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, Cassell, London, 1990, p. 101. no. 105

Slight crack to base, tiny chip to the glaze on the reverse of the figure
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A comparable model was sold: The Russian Sale, Sotheby's, 31st May 2006, formally part of the Nicholas Lynn Collection. Similar models are illustrated in: T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova: State Porcelain Manufactory 1904-1944, St Petersburg Orkestra, 2005, p.321