SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A UKRAINIAN WOMAN

SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A UKRAINIAN WOMAN, BASED ON A DESIGN BY ASTA DAVYDOVNA BRZHEZITSKAYA, DULEVO PORCELAIN FACTORY, CIRCA 1952, naturally modeled, a young woman is dressed in a traditional dress with Ukrainian embroidery on the blouse, her hair is adorned with a wreath of flowers, she stands on a round base with pseudo-embroidery, gilding, height: 35.5 cm (14 inches), marked with the factory's mark on the base. LOT NOTES. This figure of a Ukrainian woman belongs to a series of porcelain items called "Republics of the USSR," created during the Stalinist regime and corresponding to the high Stalinist aesthetic style. The series was later criticized for its excessiveness and incompatibility with the more ascetic direction of the Thaw Period. LITERATURE: A similar figure is illustrated in the book by Karen Kettering, ed., "Ode to Joy: Russian Porcelain in the Yuri Traisman Collection," (Moscow: Pinakotheke, 2008), p. 189.