Lot 308 D α

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Auction 1065 - overview Berlin
30.04.2016, 14:30 - Russian Porcelain
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
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Figure of a Soviet red army soldier in a thick winter coat. Blue enamel hammer and sickle mark. H 19 cm.
State Porcelain Factory Leningrad, 1930s, the model by Tigran Ovnanovich Davtyan.

Literature

Cf. the almost identically decorated example in the State Ceramics Museum at Kuskovo palace (cat. Fragile, Regensburg 2008, no. 436). Cf. also Sametskaia, Sovetskii agitatsionnyi farfor, Moscow 2004, p. 130, no. 1.
A Lomonosov model in the Yuri Traisman collection (cat. Ode to Joy, New York 2008, no. 129).