Figurine cat majolica vasilkovsky majolica factory ussr 1960

Vintage. Rarity.

Rare, very beautiful collectible sculpture "Cat" from the collection of art ceramics "Kind Beasts", the authors of which are outstanding Ukrainian artists Valery and Nadezhda Protorievs, who have worked at the Vasilkovsky majolica factory since the 1950s and created real masterpieces.

Kind Beasts is one of their most famous collections, which has been repeatedly exhibited at various exhibitions. In Soviet times, the Ministry of Culture purchased such works directly from the factory. Then art funds were created, through which the best products got to the museum. The largest collection of kind animals is presented in the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art.

Valery and Nadezhda Protorievs Honored Artists of Ukraine, who worked at the Vasilkovsky majolica plant for almost 40 years, formed a unique style in the field of majolica products and created a whole world of kind, fabulous animals.

The sculpture Cat was made in 1950-1960s.

When creating the sculpture, casting, painting, and glazing techniques were used.

Hand painted underglaze.

The figure is collectible!

Size: height 9 cm, length 18 cm.

Excellent collectible! No visible damage, cracks, chips, including manufacturing defects.

There is a slight noble craquelure (grid over the glaze), characteristic of the products of this majolica plant of that period, which has survived to this day, which only confirms that you have an original of a very respectable age!

Great value gift! Great interior decoration!

Vasylkivska majolica is notable for its special plasticity and conciseness of form, soft fluidity of silhouette lines, noble sophistication of sonorous, deep tones of golden brown and green glazes, flexibility and variety of decoration techniques, expressive national features. A third of the assortment was made up of small sculptures, the rest - decorative and household utensils, souvenir miniatures. The leading artists of the Vasilkovsky factory were Mikhail Denisenko, Valery and Nadezhda Protorievs, Nelli Isupova. Vasilkovskaya majolica occupied an outstanding place in the Soviet Union and was highly valued and appreciated abroad, since its artistic quality is not inferior to the best world examples. Unfortunately, in 2000 the production facilities of the enterprise were stopped.

Protorieva Nadezhda Efimovna (1926 - 2005). Ukrainian master of artistic ceramics. Born in with. Dubovka, Zhytomyr region. She graduated from the Kiev College of Applied Arts (1950) under D. Golovko, P. Glushchenko and A. Gryadunova. She worked at the Vasilkovsky majolica factory (1950 - 2000). Member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR (1960). Honored Master of Folk Art of the Ukrainian SSR (1986). Honored Artist of Ukraine (1994). Lived and worked in Vasilkov. She worked together with her husband - Valery Protoriev, a well-known ceramics artist.

The sculpture was brought from Ukraine. I'll pass it on in person.