The figure of an Uzbek washerwoman made of Soviet porcelain

SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURINE OF AN UZBEK BUSINESSWOMAN FROM 1928, NIKOLAI MURATOV, STATE PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY. Height 15 cm. Reference literature: For similar works, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, State Porcelain Factory 1904-1944 (State Porcelain Manufactory 1904-1944), St. Petersburg Orkestr, 2005, pp. 396, 597. L. Nikiforova, Russian Porcelain in the Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, "Aurora" Publishing House, 1973, ill. 160. Depicting a traditionally dressed Uzbek woman washing clothes, the base bears an impressed mark, a factory stamp with a hammer and sickle, and the initials of the modeler Ivan Kuznetsov, as well as the inscription in red-brown color "Made in Russia".