A soviet porcelain clock 'Day and Night', Natalia Danko, State Porcelain Manufactory, 1927

after a design by the artist, modelled by A. Lukhin, depicting two figures, one draped in purple fabric with an owl and a black cat and representing night, the other wrapped in gold and holding a sunflower representing daylight, with impressed manufactory marks and modeller's initials, also signed in gilt: N. Danko and with the letter D in Cyrillic  

The clock is lacking, the gilding is worn and tarnished at the front, visible in the catalogue photograph.
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For a similar model, please see: Sotheby's, London, 27th November 2007, lot 618 and also: T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, State Porcelain Manufactory 1904-1944, St. Petersburg Orchestr, 2005, p.564