A Soviet porcelain group "Border Guard" Lomonosov State Porcelain...

A Soviet porcelain group "Border Guard"

Lomonosov State Porcelain Manufactory, Leningrad, circa 1935

After the design by Konstantin Ryzhov, apparently unmarked.

H: 9 1/4 in.

PROVENANCE:

Ode to Joy Collection, Connecticut.

Exhibited
Pushkin Museum, no. 38

Literature
Oda k Radosti/Ode to Joy, p. 206, illus. 137, cat. no.119;

For comparison, see also Nosovich and Popova, p. 611, Sametskaia, Sovetskii farfor 1920-1930kh godov v chastnykh sobraniiakh Sankt-Peterburga, St. Petersburg, 2005, pp. 190-191. For similar models sold, see Sotheby's London Olympia, 21 November 2005, lot 371, Bonham's London, 1 June 2006, lot 434, and Gelos Moscow, 22 December 2006, lot 372.