Lot 162
  • 162

A Soviet porcelain figurine of Tamara Karsavina, State Porcelain Manufactory, circa 1922

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • height: 21.5cm., 8½in.
after a design by Ivanov, depicting the ballerina dressed in stage costume for the performance of Stravinsky's Firebird, with blue manufactory mark  

Condition

There is minor wear to the gilding and the figurine is lsightly dirty. Otherwise in apparent good condition.
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Catalogue Note

A similar model is illustrated in T.N. Nosovich, I.P Popova: State Porcelain Manufactory 1904-1944, St Petersburg Orkestra, 2005, pp.326-327