{"id":729,"date":"2021-04-21T02:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T02:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiqueref.com\/?page_id=729"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:33:43","slug":"vasily-kuznetsov","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/soviet-porcelain\/vasily-kuznetsov\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasily Kuznetsov (1881-1923)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Born in 1881. Joined Imperial Porcelain Factory in 1914 as a head sculptor. The author of the very first propaganda porcelain figure of the Red Army Soldier modeled in 1918.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As leading experts on early Soviet propaganda porcelain, we provide free online appraisals and help with selling figures and figural groups produced by State Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg. Below is a gallery of models created by Kuznetsov. If you happen to own one of these and would like to find out its current market value, CONTACT US<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. We\u2019ll be glad to assist<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure “Water Carrier” (January)
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Figure “Shepard” (March)
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Figure “Fish” (February)
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The series of 6 allegorical porcelain figures “Zodiac Signs” (or “Months of the year”) is considered to be Kuznetsov’s most important art work. He started designing these models in 1916. Unfortunately, the sculptor died very young in 1923 and did not get a chance to complete the set. These figures were awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1925 and continued to be produced for export by State Porcelain Factory well into 1930s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Figure “Lumberjack” (April)
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Figural group “Twins” (May)
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Figural Group “Scorpion” (June)
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Red Army Soldier\n
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Lady with parrot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lady with rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Born in 1881. Joined Imperial Porcelain Factory in 1914 as a head sculptor. The author of the very first propaganda porcelain figure of the Red Army Soldier modeled in 1918. As leading experts on early Soviet propaganda porcelain, we provide free online appraisals and help with selling figures and figural groups produced by State Porcelain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":463,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-729","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26455,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/729\/revisions\/26455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}