Lot 307
  • 307

Three Porcelain figurines of peasants with harvest fruits, Natalia Danko, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, 1936-1945

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • height of the largest: 15.5cm., 6in.; smallest: 11cm., 4¼in.
after a design by the artist, depicting a Ukrainian man carrying watermelons, a seated Ukrainian woman with tomatoes, the base with red jubilee mark celebrating Twenty Years of the October Revolution and impressed artist's initials ND, and another woman holding a basket of fruits, all with green manufactory marks  

Condition

The figures are slightly dirty. There is some rubbing to the paint, otherwise no apparent defects visible.
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Catalogue Note

For similar models see: T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova: State Porcelain Manufactory 1904-1944, St Petersburg, Orkestra, 2005, p.552 and pp.556-557