Figurine “Skier”

Technique: Porcelain, painting.
Size: 12 × 5 cm.

Porcelain, painting. Dimensions: height – 13.5 cm, base – 12x5 cm. Condition: in good condition, minor wear. Baranivka Porcelain Factory – an industrial enterprise that has ceased production, in the city of Baranivka, Zhytomyr Oblast. In the 1950s – 1980s the factory was among the leading enterprises of Baranivka. It was here that, for the first time in the Ukrainian SSR, biscuit and decorative firing of porcelain wares in conveyor kilns, vacuum de-airing of the porcelain body, accelerated firing of porcelain, semi-dry pressing of saggars, and certain other technologies were mastered. In 1950 the factory produced 17001 thousand porcelain items. In 1952 the porcelain factory museum began operating. During the 8th five-year plan (1966 – 1970) the factory was reconstructed. P24/187-1/1 USSR, Baranivka Porcelain Factory, 1950s–60s