Lot 284
  • 284

A Soviet Porcelain Figure of a Seated Uzbek Man, Lomonosov State Porcelain Manufactory, Leningrad, 1930s

Estimate
5,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • with impressed factory mark and impressed initials I.K. for modeler Ivan Kuznetsov
  • Porcelain
depicts a young Uzbek man seated on a rug and eating from a pilaf bowl

Literature

The design for this figure has been attributed to Natalia Danko, chief sculptor at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, and to Boris Yakovlev.  See T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 597 and Elvira Sametskaia, Sovetskii farfor 1920-1930-kh godov v chastnykh sobraniiakh Sankt-Peterburga, St. Petersburg, 2005, pp. 134-135, 303.

Condition

overall good condition
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