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A Soviet Porcelain Figure: Eastern Woman, Wrapped in a Chador (Afganka), Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1927
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description
after a design by Elizaveta Tripolskaia (1881-1958), with impressed, arch-shaped hammer and sickle factory mark dated 1927 and impressed Cyrillic initials A.L. for modeler Anatolii Lukin
- porcelain
- Height 8 3/4 in.
- 22.2 cm
depicting a standing Afghan woman wrapped in a chador, with her brightly colored, patterned pants and hose visible beneath
Condition
Overall good condition. Some light crazing to the glaze on the base and on the underside.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
Based on her study of the Lomonosov archives, Elvira Sametskaia has suggested that Tripolskaya designed this model as part of a group of three Eastern figures while still a student at VKhUTEIN. (For another figure from this group, see lot 168.) See E. Sametskaia, Sovetskii agitatsionnyi farfor, Moscow, 2004, pp. 310, 313. For a similar model in a Russian private collection, see T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 596.