2 December 2015 Russian Art Auctions
2 December 2015
* 211.
A Soviet Porcelain Figure Group "On Guard Duty"
1,800-2,500 GBP
AFTER A 1938 MODEL BY NATALIA DANKO, LOMONOSOV PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1938–1939
Height 24 cm.
Related literature: For similar works, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod 1904–1944, St Petersburg Orkestr, 2005, p. 565.
Two women keeping armed watch and looking attentively into the distance, both wearing peasant dress, one woman kneeling holding a rifle, the other standing, leaning on her rifle and shading her eyes, stamped under base with black ‘LFZ’, red commemorative factory marks and numbered ‘34’.
Notes on symbols:
* Indicates 5% Import Duty Charge applies.
Ω Indicates 20% Import Duty Charge applies.
§ Indicates Artist's Resale Right applies.
† Indicates Standard VAT scheme applies, and the rate of 20% VAT will be charged on both hammer price and premium.