A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN UZBEK BOY CARRYING WATERMELONS, GORODNITSKY PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, UKRAINE, 1950S
the figure realistically modeled, shown striding forward while carrying a watermelon with one arm and holding another by a cord, height: 22 cm (8 5/8 in.), factory mark on base
LITERATURE:
An almost identical figure is illustrated in Karen Kettering, ed., Ode to Joy: Russian Porcelain in the Yuri Traisman Collection, (Moscow: Pinakotheke, 2008), p. 274