A Soviet porcelain figure: A Bashkir man, Lomonosov State Porcelain Manufactory, Leningrad, 1929

after a 1913 design by Pavel Kamenskii (1858-1922) for the 'Peoples of Russia' series, modeled standing in warm dress with his hands in his jacket pockets, P. Kamenskii 1913 g. incised in base, the underside with the impressed circular factory mark of hammer, cog, and sickle for sculpture dated 1929

with some inherent firing flaws (cracks in glaze on figure and base) and flaws to glaze (not fully covered on edge of base and in spots on underside).
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This is a full-sized model of the rarely-seen Bashkir figure from the 'Peoples of Russia' series designed by sculptor Pavel Kamenskii between 1907 and 1917 and which continued to be produced at the manufactory in the 1920s and 1930s. On the series as a whole, see E. Khmelnitskaya, "'Farforovye obrazy' staroi Rossii," Antikvariat, predmety iskusstva i kollektsionirovaniia May 2013, pp. 80-93.  We are grateful to Dr. Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya for assistance in identifying this figure.