A woman in a peasant dress: a Soviet porcelain figure, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1923

A woman in a peasant dress: a Soviet porcelain figure, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1923

after a design by Natalia Danko, depicted standing dressed in a white folk shirt, with a pink patterned sarafan and a blue doted scarf, on circular naturalistic base, with green hammer and sickle factory mark, signed ‘K.N.T’ in Cyrillic with hammer, sickle and number ‘5’ in black, dated 1918, signed ‘O.Tishina’ in Cyrillic, further numbered 581 

height 25.5 cm, 10in