Auction Name: 2025 December 11 Fine & Decorative Arts Showcase Auction

Lot Number: 28089

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/13234*28089

A Soviet Porcelain Figure: An Afghan Woman Removing Her Veil
Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, late 20th century
8-1/2 x 5-1/4 x 3 inches (21.6 x 13.3 x 7.6 cm)

Though other examples of this model have come to auction, none have such exuberant and detailed painting as the offered lot.

In her study of the archives of the Lomonosov State Porcelain factory, E. Sametskaya notes that during her time as a student at VKhUTEIN, Tripolskaya designed a group of three near Eastern figures. For another figure from this group, please see Sotheby's New York, April 12, 2011 lots 167 and 168, and for another example of this model, see Sotheby's New York, April 8, 2014, lot 165 and also April 16, 2025, lot 106. For more information on this model, see E. Sametskaia, Sovetskii agitatsionnyi farfor, Moscow, 2004, pp. 310, 313 and T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 596.

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