Figurine “Girl with Sunflower”, 1950s

Technique: Porcelain, painting.
Size: Height 11 cm.

Porcelain, glaze, painting. Sculptor: V. I. Shcherbina Height: 11 cm. Base length 12 cm. Under the feet, mark in green “Baranivka / 2-S / II” Good condition, signs of use. Literature: S. I. Dudenko, I. A. Nikiforenko, T. V. Dudenko. Ukrainian Art Porcelain of the Soviet Period (Kharkiv, 2008). 200 p. P. 10. It was at the Baranivka Porcelain Factory that, for the first time in the history of Ukrainian ceramics, biscuit firing and decorative firing of porcelain wares in conveyor kilns, vacuum de-airing of the porcelain body, accelerated firing of porcelain, semi-dry pressing of saggars and some other technologies were mastered. After the Great Patriotic War the factory's range expanded considerably. In addition to traditional services and sculptures, production began of sports trophies, souvenirs, caskets, etc. The best-known and most talented masters of that time were M. Krivorukaya, V. Pokosovskaya, D. S. Goch, O. Zhnikrup. Over the 1950s–1960s the sculptor Vladislav Shcherbina created over 1000 original sculptures and compositions, designs for services and vases, and souvenir products in the form of shtof decanters and smoking pipes. Shcherbina's small-scale sculpture long served as a benchmark of style. Works after his models were reproduced by other porcelain enterprises of Ukraine For the first time on the Bidspirit platform.