Girl on a Stone

Technique: Biscuit.

Girl on a Stone. Riga Porcelain Factory, 1953–1962. Sculptor: Beatrise Karklinya (b. 1933). Porcelain, underglaze and overglaze painting. H. – 9 cm. Excellent condition: no chips, cracks or restoration. On the base – grade “1 s”, applied st. in red paint on the biscuit. Beatrise Karklinya, a well-known porcelain master from Latvia, worked for many years as an artist in the art laboratory of the Riga Porcelain Factory (from 1953), and over the course of her creative life created a number of porcelain wares, both tableware forms and sculpture. Alongside her work on mass-produced wares, Beatrise Karklinya also carried out special commissions – she created forms and hand-painted items that were prepared as exhibits for industrial exhibitions, as gifts for the political and economic elite, and for the release of small-run exclusive lines. Bibl.: Safonova M., Ruskulis V. Two Centuries of Riga Porcelain. Moscow, 2012. p. 166 (col. ill., painting variants).