A PORCELAIN FIGURE 'MAROCHKA'
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE 'MAROCHKA'

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922

Closed4 June 2018

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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

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.

Specialist note

For a comparable figure, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 339.