Ivan Papanin And Jolly The Dog, Lomonosov State Porcelain Manufactory, Leningrad, 1938

after a design by Natalia Danko, stamped dark green factory mark and iron red jubilee mark, inscribed R (Cyrillic) in black overglaze, numbered 24_

Hillwood Museum, no. 57; Pushkin Museum, no. 42

Oda k Radosti/Ode to Joy, pp. 162-163, cat. no. 100; for comparison, see Nosovich and Popova, p. 572.

overall very good condition
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Worldwide coverage of the Papanin expedition made all of the team members celebrities, including the Husky mix Jolly (Veselyi) who accompanied them; children were particularly enamoured of the dog.  Papanin did not share their feelings and wanted to give the dog to the Moscow Zoo.  After a public outcry, the dog was given to Stalin and lived out the rest of his days at his dacha outside Moscow, cared for by the staff.