A Pair of Very Rare Soviet Porcelain Figures: a Young Blacksmith and a Young Thresher, Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, circa 1926 the first depicting a young boy wearing blue shorts, a white printed shirt and brown boots straining to raise a heavy blacksmith's hammer over an anvil, a pile of horseshoes lays on the ground next to him; the second showing a similarly dressed young boy lifting a sheaf of wheat with difficulty, a scythe and drinking jar discarded at his feet both after models by Maria Strakhovskaia (1888-1962); the blacksmith with impressed circular hammer and sickle factory mark; the thresher with impressed circular hammer and sickle factory mark with the details picked out in black overglaze, impressed Cyrillic initials A.L. for modeler Anatolii Lukin, and the Cyrillic signature and date "E. Yakimovskaia 1926" in black overglaze Height 5 3/4 in.; 6 1/4 in. 14.6 cm; 15.9 cm
A Pair of Very Rare Soviet Porcelain Figures: a Young Blacksmith and a Young Thresher, Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, circa 1926 the first depicting a young boy wearing blue shorts, a white printed shirt and brown boots straining to raise a heavy blacksmith's hammer over an anvil, a pile of horseshoes lays on the ground next to him; the second showing a similarly dressed young boy lifting a sheaf of wheat with difficulty, a scythe and drinking jar discarded at his feet both after models by Maria Strakhovskaia (1888-1962); the blacksmith with impressed circular hammer and sickle factory mark; the thresher with impressed circular hammer and sickle factory mark with the details picked out in black overglaze, impressed Cyrillic initials A.L. for modeler Anatolii Lukin, and the Cyrillic signature and date "E. Yakimovskaia 1926" in black overglaze Height 5 3/4 in.; 6 1/4 in. 14.6 cm; 15.9 cm
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