Beschreibung:

The Apple Seller: a rare Soviet porcelain figure, Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1927
after a 1927 design by Leonid Yakovlevich Khortik (1889-1942), depicting a young woman wearing a printed headscarf, a sheepskin coat, and tall boots carrying a basket of apples along a cobblestone road, with impressed circular factory mark with hammer, sickle, marked in red 'Made in Russia USSR' height 17.5cm; 6⅞in.Condition reportTo request a Condition Report, please contact Cameron.DiLeo@sothebys.com.
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The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The condition report is provided to assist you with assessing the condition of the lot and is for guidance only. Any reference to condition in the condition report for the lot does not amount to a full description of condition. The images of the lot form part of the condition report for the lot. Certain images of the lot provided online may not accurately reflect the actual condition of the lot. In particular, the online images may represent colors and shades which are different to the lot's actual color and shades. The condition report for the lot may make reference to particular imperfections of the lot but you should note that the lot may have other faults not expressly referred to in the condition report for the lot or shown in the online images of the lot. The condition report may not refer to all faults, restoration, alteration or adaptation. The condition report is a statement of opinion only. For that reason, the condition report is not an alternative to taking your own professional advice regarding the condition of the lot. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS ONLINE CONDITION REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE/BUSINESS APPLICABLE TO THE RESPECTIVE SALE.Catalogue noteLeonid Khortik is among the circle of students of Leningrad sculptor Alexander Matveev who supplied the Lomonosov factory with innovative new designs for figures in the 1920s and 1930s. Khortik's design for a vibrant young girl selling apples in a street market is very rare and appears only rarely on the market. It can be seen in a 1936 photo of the factory museum reproduced in T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 631. We are grateful to Nataliya Petrova of the Lomonosov Museum of Porcelain for assistance in cataloging this lot.