A SOVIET PORCELAIN FIGURE OF FEODOR CHALIAPIN IN THE ROLE OF BORIS GODUNOV LOMONOSOV STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY 1950S
after the 1922 model by Yakov Troupyansky, depicting Chaliapin as Boris Godunov in Modest Mussorgsky's opera, hand-painted porcelain with gilt detailing, height: 28.3 (11 1/8 in.), factory mark on the base
REFERENCE
T. Znamenova, Ed., Gosudarstvennyy Farforovyy Zavod, St. Petersburg and Moscow: Sankt-Peterburg Orkestr, 2005, p. 381 (illustrated)