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A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A WOMAN WITH A BROKEN JUG
Lot 272

A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A WOMAN WITH A BROKEN JUG

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1926

Closed23 November 2020

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A WOMAN WITH A BROKEN JUG
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1926
After the model by Stepan Pimenov, realistically modelled and painted as a seated lady in a light blue sarafan, holding a handkerchief, with a broken jug on the ground, marked under base with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog and date ‘1926’, signed in Cyrillic 'E.Yakimovskaya'
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high

Specialist note

First produced by the Imperial Porcelain Factory between 1817 and 1820, this model returned to production in the 1920s. For more information and comparable figures, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 608.