A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ZAREMA

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1930

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ZAREMA
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1930
After the model by Natalia Danko, realistically modelled and painted as a woman, wearing a traditional Oriental costume, carrying a dagger, marked under base with blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1930.'
4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) high

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Zarema is one of three characters from Alexander Pushkin’s poem The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, models of which which were designed by Natalia Danko and produced by the State Porcelain Factory throughout the 1920s and 1930s. For a nearly identical figure, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944 [State Porcelain Factory, 1904-1944], St Petersburg, 2005, p. 374.

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