Monkey

Technique: Porcelain.
Size: 8.2 × 5.3 × 4.5 cm.

Size 8.2x5.3x4.5 cm. Mark on the underside. General wear and minor scratches. Zigrid Osvaldovna Kulbakh (1907–?) She was born in Yekaterinoslav Governorate, in the city of Kryvyi Rih. In 1930 she graduated from the Art and Industry Technical School at the Higher Art and Technical Institute in Leningrad. In the same year Zigrid Kulbakh began her creative career at the Leningrad Porcelain Factory, where she worked in the sculpture workshop until 1934. In the period from 1936 to 1941 Kulbakh interrupted her work at LFZ and continued working in monumental sculpture in the studio of M. G. Manizer. However, in 1943 she returned to LFZ, but now as head of the sculpture workshop of the renowned factory. The sculptor's most popular work was the chess set “Animals of the North and South” (1934), individual pieces of which can be found at antique markets and in antique shops. Of her works with socially oriented subject matter, museum and private collections hold only the ashtray “Cogwheel with Relief Decoration on an Agricultural Theme. Author of the model: Z. O. Kulbakh. Porcelain. LFZ. 1937