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A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A LADY WITH A PARROT (COCKATOO)
Lot 218 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A LADY WITH A PARROT (COCKATOO)

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922

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A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A LADY WITH A PARROT (COCKATOO)
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922
After the model by Natalia Danko and Vasily Kuznetsov, depicting a standing figure of a lady, wearing a full-skirted white dress with floral print, holding a yellow parrot in her left hand and a fan in her right, marked inside the base with blue underglaze hammer, sickle and cog, dated '1922.' and numbered 47⁄15', also with impressed Cyrillic initials 'NS' of a modeller
8 1⁄4 in. (21 cm.) high

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The present rare model of 'A Lady with a Parrot (Cockatoo)' was jointly designed by Vasily Kuznetsov and Natalia Danko in 1916. The form is believed to have been modelled by Kuznetsov, and the dress by Danko.

A comparable figure, also dated 1922 and numbered 47⁄13', was sold at Christie’s, London, 25 November 2013, lot 359. For other comparable figures and more information on the model, see V. Levshenkov, Tvorchestvo Sester Danko, St Petersburg, 2012, p. 83.