Partisan on a Reconnaissance (Red Army Man): a Soviet porcelain figure, after a design by Danko, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1922

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Partisan on a Reconnaissance (Red Army Man): a Soviet porcelain figure, after a design by Danko, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1922

wearing a pale orange fur-trimmed coat, white boots and a brown hat with a red star, holding a rifle on his back, standing on a circular base realistically modelled and painted as snow with some fallen pine branches, dated on the base directly below the figure's front foot 1919, inscribed under the base with green factory marks and 45/5, dated 1922

height 21.5cm; 8½in.