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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN FIGURE 'UDARNITSA'
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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN FIGURE 'UDARNITSA'

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, EARLY 1930S

Closed26 November 2018

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN FIGURE 'UDARNITSA'
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, EARLY 1930S
After the model by Natalia Danko, realistically modelled and painted, a standing figure of a female worker, in a white dress, wearing a red headscarf, holding a scroll inscribed in Russian 'Plan 100%', next to a percentage chart, on a square base, marked under base with blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog
3¾ in. (9.4 cm.)

Specialist note

The present figure of Udarnitsa (shock-worker) by Danko brings to the fore the Suprematist enthusiasm for geometry and limited range of colours, frequently on a white ground. The chart beside the woman evokes the Suprematist architectons pioneered by Kazimir Malevich.

For a comparable model from the State Hermitage Museum, see Exhibition catalogue, The Voice of the Time Soviet Porcelain: Art and Propaganda, St Petersburg, 2017, p. 94, no. 27, and T. Kudryartseva, Circling the Square, Avant-garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia, London, 2004, pp. 70, 99, no. 38.