Sculpture “Yakut with Squirrel (Nanai Boy with Squirrel)”

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

Sculpture “Yakut with Squirrel (Nanai Boy with Squirrel)”. USSR, Dulyovo Porcelain Factory (Dulyovo), N. Malysheva. 1958. Porcelain, painting, gilding. Height 14.5 cm. Marks: in blue “DULYOVO / ... 58 g”, in red “83”. Condition: signs of use. Nina Aleksandrovna Malysheva (1914–1983) – sculptor in porcelain. She studied at MIPIDI (earlier at FZU, in the group of metal turners, at the Art School named after 1905). After graduating from the institute in 1947 she came to work in Dulyovo. At the factory she created a large number of sculptures: “Telephone Conversation”, “Manicure”, “In the Far North”, “The Plane Has Arrived”, “Lost”, “Lezginka”, “Walk” (“Mum with a Pram”), etc. The sculptor carried out her works from beginning to end – she was the author of the forms and of the painting prototypes. Her works are held in the Kuskovo State Museum of Ceramics, in the Museum of the Dulyovo Porcelain Factory.