TWO SOVIET PORCELAIN SCULPTURES, 1956 Little hostess and Tsar Dadon Models by Olga Mikhailovna Bogdanova Dulevo porcelain manufactory, Moscow region

Little hostess Marks: in Cyrillic ‘DZ/ Dulevo / 2S-56/ 65’ (on the underside) porcelain, underglaze hand painting H. 13.5 cm Tsar Dadon (after A.S. Pushkin’s ‘The Tale of the Golden Cockerel’) Marks: in Cyrillic ‘DZ / Dulevo / 3S-56/ 87’ (on the underside) porcelain, underglaze hand painting H. 15.9 cm Dulevo Porcelain Works is a renowned Russian porcelain manufacturer located in the Moscow Oblast, whose products are widely known as Dulevo porcelain. The factory was founded in 1832 in the Dulyovo wasteland (now Likino-Dulyovo) by the merchant Terenti Kuznetsov from Gzhel. During the Soviet period, the Dulevo porcelain factory produced numerous tableware sets and decorative sculptures. Its creative legacy was shaped by prominent designers, including Pyotr Vasilyevich Leonov, Mikhail Mikhailovich Adamovich (1927–1933), Alexey Georgievich Sotnikov, Vladimir Klimentyevich Yasnetsov, Asta Davydovna Brzhezitskaya, Olga Mikhailovna Bogdanova, Evgeniya Ilyinichna Gatilova, and Nina Aleksandrovna Malysheva.