8 June 2016 Russian Art and Photography Auctions
8 June 2016
348. A Porcelain Figurine of an Uzbek Girl Cotton Picker
SOFIA VELIKHOVA, PAINTING BY LARISA GRIGORIEVA, LOMONOSOV STATE PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1955
1,200-1,800 GBP
Height 22 cm.
Related literature: For similar works, see Yu.A. Traysman, Ode to Joy, Pinakotheke Moscow, 2008, ill. no. 122.
V. V. Znamenov (ed.), Leningradskyi farforovyi zavod imeni M. V. Lomonosova 1944–2004, St Petersburg, Global View, 2006, p. 239.
Realistically modelled, wearing colourful national dress with a blue and yellow tunic over striped red trousers, multicoloured shoes and ornate red ornate, depicted beside a green bush with gilt decoration and a red bag full of gilt cottons, on circular shaped white base with a gilt rim, with blue overglaze and incised manufactory marks, further numbered ‘1c’ in blue and ‘110’ in black.
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.