Sculpture “Sailor with Red Banner”

Technique: Porcelain, painting, gilding.
Size: 12 × 9 cm.

Sculpture “Sailor with Red Banner”. USSR, author of the model – N. Ya. Danko, second half of the 20th century. Porcelain; painting, gilding. Marks: impressed in the paste “hammer and sickle”, “IK”. Dimensions: height – 19 cm, base – 12x9 cm. Minor signs of use. Natalia Yakovlevna Danko (1892–1942) – Soviet ceramic sculptor. In 1900–1902 she studied at the Stroganov Art School in Moscow. She then studied in various private studios. From 1914, together with V. V. Kuznetsov, she worked in the sculpture workshop of the Imperial Porcelain Factory in Petrograd. In 1919 she became head of the factory's sculpture department. Natalia Danko created more than 300 sculptural works. The best known are: “Red Army Soldier”, “Woman Worker Embroidering a Banner”, “Sailor”, “Militiawoman”, “Porters”, “Fortune Teller”, “Hunger”, “Chess”, “Woman Worker”, “Woman with Sheaf” and others. She also created portrait figures: “Nijinsky”, “Fyodorova 2nd”, “Anna Akhmatova”, “Meyerhold”.