Two Soviet Porcelain Figures: A Sayot Woman in the Costume of Tuva and a Buryat Woman, Lomonosov State Porcelain Manufactory, Leningrad, 1920s/1930s

the first after a 1910 design by Pavel Kamenskii for the 'Peoples of Russia' series, modelled as standing Buryat woman with a shawl draped over one arm, with impressed factory mark, impressed Cyrillic initials IK for factory modeller Ivan Kuznetsov, and iron red export stamp reading Made in Russia; the second after a 1908 model by Kamenskii from the same series, modelled as a kneeling Sayot woman in pale green robe with red and black trim and a fur hat, with impressed factory mark and impressed Cyrillic initials IK for factory modeller Ivan Kuznetsov

both in good condition
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For comparatives, see T. Nosovich & I. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, pp. 139 and 148 and E. Sametskaia, Sovetskii farfor 1920-1930-kh godov v chastnykh sobraniiakh Sankt-Peterburga, St Petersburg, 2005, pp. 36 and 269.