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
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