Figurine “On a Walk”

Technique: Porcelain, painting.
Size: Height 22.5 cm.

Figurine “On a Walk”. USSR, Kyiv Experimental Ceramic and Art Factory, author of the model – N. A. Malysheva, 1970s–1980s. Porcelain, painting. Marks: printed in blue “K”, “1S”. Dimensions: height – 22.5 cm. Minor signs of use. The factory was founded in 1924 in Kyiv Oblast as a workshop producing ceramic paints and decals. After the Great Patriotic War a shop for making art wares appeared at the enterprise. Graduates of the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Art and of the Myrhorod Ceramic Technical School worked at the factory, and folk masters from the village of Petrykivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, made cups with romantic painting. The factory was given the task of developing prototypes of forms and painting for other porcelain enterprises of Ukraine. Tea and coffee services were produced (breakfast set, 1952 – F. Klimenko-Zhukova). The wares were decorated predominantly with floral ornament, executed mainly in brushwork painting. In 1954–1988 V. I. Shcherbina, a graduate of the Odesa Art School, worked at the factory. Here he created approx. 1000 sculptural compositions. For many years he was the chief artist of the enterprise. From 1955 the sculptor O. L. Zhnikrup worked at the factory. Many works on the theme of happy motherhood and childhood were created by S. V. Bolzan – Golembovskaya, who worked at KEKKhZ in 1951–1964. In the 1950s–1970s O. P. Rapay created sculptures at the factory. In different years V. T. Musienko, E. M. Nikitaeva, N. G. Gonsalis, G. M. Kaluga, N. G. Lampena, T. V. Lozovaya, I. S. Pekhukha and others worked at the enterprise. In 1993 the factory was privatised.