Sculpture “First Counting”

Technique: Porcelain, painting.
Size: Height 20 cm.

Sculpture “First Counting”. USSR, Leningrad Porcelain Factory (LFZ), G. S. Stolbova, E. N. Lupanova. 1950s–1960s. Porcelain, painting. Height 20 cm. Marks: in blue “LFZ”, poorly legible. Condition: signs of use. Galina Sergeevna Stolbova (1908-1996) – porcelain sculptor, author of the series of figurines “Happy Childhood”. She graduated from the cooperative department of the Vyatka Industrial and Economic Technical School in 1925, and in 1937 from the I. E. Repin IZhSA in Leningrad (sculpture department). From 1949 she worked at the Leningrad Porcelain Factory. Elizaveta Nikolaevna Lupanova (1910-1973) – porcelain painter. In 1931 she graduated from the ceramics department of the Leningrad Art and Industry Technical School. In 1931-1932 she worked as an artist at the artel “Izobretatel”, in 1932-1934 as an artist at the Household Commune of the Working Youth Theatre (“TRAM”). In 1937-1942 she worked at LFZ as an artist. Author of painting prototypes for figures made after models by N. Ya. Danko, G. S. Stolbova, S. B. Velikhova, B. Ya. Vorobyov and others.