Porcelain figurine “Yemelya with the Pike”

Technique: Porcelain, painting.
Size: Height 21 cm.

Porcelain figurine “Yemelya with the Pike”. Gzhel Porcelain Factory, 1970s–90s. Porcelain, painting. Height – 21 cm. Author: T. Sapozhnikova. Based on the Russian folk tale “By the Pike's Command”. Tamara Nikolaevna was born in 1919. In 1956 she graduated from MIPIDI. Her diploma work was the column finial “Woman Electrician” (in those years buildings, parks, etc. were decorated everywhere with such sculptures). The composition appealed so much to the Chinese comrades that it was purchased through the China-USSR friendship society and taken to the Celestial Empire. Later T. N. Sapozhnikova came to work in Gzhel at the artel “Khudozhestvennaya Keramika”. Condition – good, no chips, cracks or restoration.