Sculpture “Ivan Tsarevich with the Frog Princess”

Technique: Porcelain, painting, gilding.
Size: Height 14.5 cm.

Sculpture “Ivan Tsarevich with the Frog Princess”. USSR, Leningrad Factory of Porcelain Products (LZFI), 1956-1967.  Sculptor: A. Kiselev.  Height: 14.5 cm.  Mark: green, printed “LZFI”, annotation in black by hand “8”, annotation impressed in the paste.  Good condition: minor wear to the gilding. Anatoly Alexandrovich Kiselev (b. 1929) – sculptor, artist. He graduated from the V. I. Mukhina Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry. From 1954 to 1969 he worked at the Leningrad Porcelain Factory. Author of well-known porcelain sculptures: “Swan Geese”, “Alyonushka”, “Frog Princess”. Member of the Union of Artists since 1960. A representative of the “Sterligov group”. His works are in the State Russian Museum, the Theatre Museum (St. Petersburg), the city of Osaka (Japan), and in private collections in Russia, the USA, Poland.