5 June 2019 Important Russian Art Auctions, at Asia House
5 June 2019
* 398.
A Soviet Porcelain Figurine of a Sentry
1,000–1,500 GBP
AFTER A 1930 MODEL BY TIGRAN DAVTYAN, LOMONOSOV STATE PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, LENINGRAD
Height 20 cm.
Realistically modelled, wearing a sheepskin coat and Budenny Cap, holding a rifle, on white square shaped base, with blue hammer and sickle manufactory mark.
Related literature: For similar works, see E. Sametskaia, Sovetskii Agitatsionnyi Farfor, Moscow, 2004, p. 130, ill. 1[1].
T. Kudriavtseva, Circling the Square. Avant-Garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia, London, Fontanka, 2004, p. 100, No. 40.
Ode to Joy. Russian Porcelain in the Yuri Traisman Collection, Moscow, Pinakotheke, 2008, p. 195, No. 129.
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