Lot 283
  • 283

A Soviet Porcelain Group of a Woman and Child with Fish, Natalia Danko, State Porcelain Manufactory, 1920s

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • with impressed manufactory mark used for sculpture before 1936
  • Porcelain
  • Height 8 7/8 in.
  • 22.5 cm
after a design by Natalia Danko, sculpted by I. Kuznetsov, a woman depicted with a child at her feet, holding a fish in both hands, one wrapped in a Pravda newspaper

Literature

For similar models please see T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 354 and Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics: Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, London, 1990, p. 93.

Condition

arm repaired; otherwise in good condition
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