Figurine “Ural Quadrille”

Technique: Porcelain, painting, gilding, lustre.

Figurine “Ural Quadrille”. USSR, Dulyovo Porcelain Factory (Dulyovo), auth. N. A. Malysheva. 1963. Porcelain, painting. Height: 15.5 cm Marks: printed in blue “DZ. Dulyovo 2S-63 g.”; printed in red 45; printed “Off-grade”. Good condition. Manufacturing cracks on the girl's shoulders and the hem of the skirt, wear, soiling. A similar figurine is published in the catalogue “Soviet Porcelain 1917–1991: An Illustrated Reference and Identification Guide with a Directory of Factory Marks and Prices. Catalogue 2012–2013”, I. Pelinsky, M. Safonova, p. 317. A similar item is published in the catalogue “Museum of Dulyovo Porcelain. Vol. 1. Sculptures” / M. A. Safronova. Moscow: 2019. p. 178. Nina Aleksandrovna Malysheva (1914–1983) – Soviet porcelain sculptor. She studied at MIPIDI (faculties of art ceramics and decorative sculpture). Earlier – at FZU, in the group of metal turners, and also at the Art School named after 1905. After graduating from the institute in 1947 she began working at the Dulyovo Porcelain Factory, where 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. Nina Aleksandrovna called her works “sketches from life”. The sculptor carried out her works from beginning to end and was the author of the forms and of the painting prototypes.