A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN
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A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919

Closed2 June 2014

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919
Realistically modelled as a standing figure of a Georgian woman wearing a traditional turquoise dress with gilt edges, on an naturalistic circular base, after the model by P. Kamenskii, inscribed on base 'P. Kamenskii', marked inside the base with blue hammer, sickle and cog, blue date '1919.' and green masked provisional government mark and date 1917; inscribed under base in Russian ‘V.V. Gruzinka’
14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar biscuit porcelain figure of a Georgian Woman [Gruzinka] after a model by P. Kamenskii, 1912, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944 [State Porcelain Factory, 1904-1944], St Petersburg, 2005, p. 137.