MacDougall's Russian Art Auctions 27-30 May 2012
27 May 2012
414. A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN UZBEK LAUNDRESS
AFTER A 1928 MODEL BY NIKOLAI
MURATOV, STATE PORCELAIN
MANUFACTORY .
Height 15 cm.
4,000–6,000 GBP
Related literature: For similar works, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod 1904–1944 (State Porcelain Manufactory 1904–1944), St Petersburg Orkestr, 2005, pp. 396, 597.
L. Nikiforova, Russian Porcelain in the Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1973, ill. 160.
Depicting a traditionally dressed Uzbek woman washing laundry, impressed under base with hammer and sickle factory mark and initials of modeller Ivan Kuznetsov, inscribed in red-brown “Made in Russia”.
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.