Lot number 15 - Auction 147
SELTENE FIGUR VON T.P. KARSAWINA ALS FEUERVOGEL IN GLEICHNAMIGEM BALLETT VON I.F. STRAWINSKY

DMITRY IOSIFOVICH IVANOV 1880 St. Petersburg - 1938 Solovki A RARE PORCELAIN FIGURE OF T.P. KARSAVINA AS A FIREBIRD IN THE BALLET BY I.F. STRAVINSKY Soviet Union, Petrograd, State Procelain Factory, A.M. Lukin (modeller), 1923 Realistically modelled and overglaze painted, partially gilded. Factory stamp with hammer and sickel, dated '1923', monogramm-stamp 'AL' and overglaze red mark 'Made in Russia'. Tamara Platonovna Karsavina - prima ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet. The costume in which she is depicted was made based on a sketch by Leon Bakst for Diaghilev's 'Ballets Russes' in Paris in 1910. 22 cm high.