A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF THE "RED GUARD", VASILII KUZNETSOV, STATE PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, CIRCA 1918

CIRCA 1918height: 21cm., 8¼inafter a design by the artist, modelled by: N. Daladugin, clad in black with a red shirt and belt with a rifle resting at his side, with green factory mark and artist signature painted in CyrillicPROVENANCENicholas Lynn CollectionSotheby's, London, The Russian Sale, Thursday 19th February 1998, lot 579LITERATURENina Lobanov-Rostovsky: Revolutionary Ceramics, Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, Cassell, London, 1990, p. 101. no. 105NOTEVasily Kuznetsov (1892-1923) was head of the Sculpture Department of the State Porcelain Manufactory. This was reputedly produced in 1918 following the first months of the October Revolution. Similar models are illustrated in: T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova: State Porcelain Manufactory 1904-1944, St Petersburg Orkestra, 2005, p.321