Design 17/20: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics & Clocks

Design 17/20: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics & Clocks

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The Apple Seller: a rare Soviet porcelain figure, Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1927

Lot Closed

November 9, 05:38 PM GMT

Estimate

18,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Apple Seller: a rare Soviet porcelain figure, Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1927


after a 1927 design by Leonid Yakovlevich Khortik (1889-1942), depicting a young woman wearing a printed headscarf, a sheepskin coat, and tall boots carrying a basket of apples along a cobblestone road, with impressed circular factory mark with hammer, sickle, marked in red 'Made in Russia USSR'

height 17.5cm; 6⅞in.

Leonid Khortik is among the circle of students of Leningrad sculptor Alexander Matveev who supplied the Lomonosov factory with innovative new designs for figures in the 1920s and 1930s. Khortik's design for a vibrant young girl selling apples in a street market is very rare and appears only rarely on the market. It can be seen in a 1936 photo of the factory museum reproduced in T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 631. We are grateful to Nataliya Petrova of the Lomonosov Museum of Porcelain for assistance in cataloging this lot.