Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons
Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons
Property from a Private European Collection
The loaders: a Soviet porcelain figure, after a design by Danko, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1924
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Property from a Private European Collection
The loaders: a Soviet porcelain figure, after a design by Danko, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1924
one figure standing with a hand by his side and the other on his hip, wearing a gold-embroidered green waistcoat, the other figure sitting behind him facing the other way, wearing a gold-embroidered red waistcoat, one arm resting on his knee and the other draped over a boulder inscribed 'Petrektrans', the name of a Soviet transport company, on one side and 'I.I. Rybakov' on the other in black in Cyrillic, the uneven base white with green and pink floral embellishments, inscribed under the base with EH in Cyrillic and the factory mark in black, dated 1924
height 16cm; 6¼in.
The Loaders is Natalia Danko's adaptation and reworking in porcelain of The Hauler, a large bronze sculpture in the port of Antwerp by the Belgian artist Constantin Meunier (1831-1905). Meunier's oeuvre enjoyed a degree of popularity in early Soviet periodicals.
Iosif Rybakov, a family friend of Elena and Natalia Danko, served as legal adviser to the shipping company Petrektrans. The name of Rybakov and of the transportation company painted on the porcelain statuette were intended as an homage to the artists' friend who was also a prominent porcelain collector.
T. Nosovich, I. Popova, Gosudarstvenniy Farforoviy Zavod, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 348.