Sculptural group “Tsar Cannon”

Technique: Faience, painting.
Size: 14 × 7.7 × 8 cm.

Sculptural group “Tsar Cannon”. USSR, M. I. Kalinin Konakovo Faience Factory (Konakovo), sculptor E. M. Gurevich. 1956-1962. Faience, painting. 14×7.7×8 cm. Marks: in green “ZiK KONAKOVO”, “22”; in blue: “2nd grade”. Condition: Chip of 3 mm on the underside of the plinth. Elena Mikhailovna Gurevich (1906-?) – artist, sculptor. She studied at VKhUTEIN under V. A. Favorsky. In 1951 she joined the Art Laboratory of the Konakovo Faience Factory. In the second half of the 1950s she created her well-known works “Don Quixote and Sancho Panza” and “The Chinese Nightingale”, which were awarded a silver medal at the Brussels Exhibition in 1958. While creating exhibition and production small-scale sculpture, the artist also worked as an author of tableware forms.