A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A UKRAINIAN WOMAN,

A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A UKRAINIAN WOMAN, AFTER A DESIGN BY ASTA DAVYDOVNA BRZHEZITSKAIA, DULEVO PORCELAIN FACTORY, CIRCA 1952, naturalistically modeled, the young woman wears a traditional dress with Ukrainian embroider on the blouse, a wreath of flowers adorns her hair, she stands on a round base with gilded pseudo embroidery, height: 35.5 cm (14 in.), marked with factory mark on baseLOT NOTES This figure of a Ukrainian woman belongs to a series of porcelain works titled 'Republics of the USSR', created during the Stalinist regime, and confirming to the High Stalinist aesthetic. The series was subsequently criticized for its excessiveness and incompatibility with the more ascetic direction of the Thaw Period. LITERATURE Similar figure illustrated in Karen Kettering, ed., 'Ode to Joy: Russian Porcelain in the Yuri Traisman Collection', (Moscow: Pinakotheke, 2008), p. 189