A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN INKSTAND ‘REAPERESS’
Lot 374 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTION

A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN INKSTAND ‘REAPERESS’

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919

Closed3 June 2019

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GBP 11,250

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A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN INKSTAND ‘REAPERESS’
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919
After a model by Natalya Danko, realistically modelled and painted as a reclining woman, in a red floral sarafan, white shirt and green headscarf, holding a sickle in her right hand and a basket formed as an inkwell in her left hand, with a detachable cover, reclining on wheat sheaves, marked under base with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog and date ‘1919’
7 in. (17.8 cm.) wide

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.