A Soviet Porcelain Figure: An Afghan Woman Removing Her Veil Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, after 1928 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. Property from the Nelkin Collection HID12401132022 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved