Lot 252
  • 252

A soviet porcelain figurine of a woman carrying a cabbage, Natalia Danko, State Porcelain Manufactory, 1937-1939

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

Description

  • height: 13.5cm., 5 1/4 in.
after a design by the artist, with green and red jubilee mark for the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution

Condition

In apparent good condition.
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Catalogue Note

For a similar figurine of a woman carrying a pumpkin and other such figurines, see: T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, The State Porcelain Manufactory 1904-1944, St. Petersburg Orchestr, 2005, p.354 and pp.554-555