Lot 152
  • 152

A Soviet porcelain figure of a worker sewing, State porcelain manufactory, circa 1927

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • height: 15ΒΌ cm., 6in.
after a design by Natalia Danko, painted by E. Potapova, the young woman depicted seated, working on a Soviet flag Long Live Soviet Rule, with blue factory mark, artist's cipher, and 'Made in Russia USSR' in red 

Condition

In apparent good condition
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Catalogue Note

for similar models please see Farfor Fayans Steklo, Sovietskoe Dekorativnoe Iskustvo Materiali I Dokumenti, 1917-1932 p.22