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For a comparable figure, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 339.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTION
A PORCELAIN FIGURE 'MAROCHKA'
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE 'MAROCHKA'
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922
After a model by Natalya Danko, realistically modelled and painted as a girl, standing by a flowering shrub, wearing a red dress and white boots, on a circular base decorated with gilt foliage, marked under base with blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1922'
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922
After a model by Natalya Danko, realistically modelled and painted as a girl, standing by a flowering shrub, wearing a red dress and white boots, on a circular base decorated with gilt foliage, marked under base with blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1922'
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Mikhail Alexeyevich Sergeev (1888-1965), scientist and economist, one of the first commissars of the State Bank of the USSR.
Acquired from the estate of the above by the parents of the present owner.
Acquired from the estate of the above by the parents of the present owner.
Brought to you by
Alexis de Tiesenhausen