Sculpture “Maxim Gorky – Stormy Petrel of the Revolution”

Technique: Biscuit.
Size: 18 × 11 cm.

USSR, Leningrad Porcelain Factory, author of the model V. G. Stamov, 1955 – mid-1960s. Biscuit; relief, painting. Marks: blue printed “LFZ”, markings impressed in the paste and in colour. Condition: in good condition, signs of use, wear. Dimensions: height – 30.5 cm, base – 18 x 11 cm. A similar model is in the collection of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg. Vasily Gavrilovich Stamov (1914-1993) – Soviet sculptor, draughtsman, portraitist, master of easel, monumental, decorative, wooden, and garden and park sculpture and of small-scale sculpture; he also worked in majolica and for production porcelain. Author of monuments, portraits and compositions. Participant in the restoration of sculpture in Leningrad and its suburbs. He worked in Novy Kuchuk-Koy and Simferopol. Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1975), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986). D23/315-1/7