A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A DANCING PEASANT WOMAN
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, CIRCA 1919
After a model by Natalya Danko, painted after a design by Alexandra Shekotikhina-Potoskaya, realistically modelled as a dancing figure of a woman wearing a shirt and traditional white sarafan painted with red flowers, with a red headscarf, holding her right hand by her shoulder, marked under base with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog, inscribed in Russian ‘painting N.Sch’, also with red overglaze artist's Cyrillic initials 'VR.' for Varvara Rukavishnikova and number ‘434/2’
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high
A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A DANCING PEASANT WOMAN
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, CIRCA 1919
After a model by Natalya Danko, painted after a design by Alexandra Shekotikhina-Potoskaya, realistically modelled as a dancing figure of a woman wearing a shirt and traditional white sarafan painted with red flowers, with a red headscarf, holding her right hand by her shoulder, marked under base with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog, inscribed in Russian ‘painting N.Sch’, also with red overglaze artist's Cyrillic initials 'VR.' for Varvara Rukavishnikova and number ‘434/2’
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high
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