Lot 454
  • 454

Swineherdess with Piglet, Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, late 1950s

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • porcelain
  • height 17.8cm, 7in.
after a 1955 design by Margarita Samoletova and a painted design by Elizaveta Lupanova, stamped dark blue factory mark, V/sort in Cyrillic (vysshi sort), impressed initial E, numbered 206 in black overglaze

Exhibited

Pushkin Museum, no. 91

Literature

Oda k Radosti/Ode to Joy, p. 166, cat. no. 103; for comparison, see Sovetskii khudozhestvennyi farfor zavoda im. M.V. Lomonosoa, Leningrad, Iskustvo, 1961, p. 101 and Petrova 2007, p.393.

Condition

overall very good condition; a small glaze loss, possibly inherent firing flaw, on figure's back
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