Progress Artel (Cooperative Association) of Leningrad
Figure Skater
1960
1950–1960
27.3 x 5.7 x 12.4 cm
Marks: underside: Mark ‘71’ stamped in red; ‘5’ in black overglaze
cat. no. 334
Progress Artel (Cooperative Association) of Leningrad (1946–1948)
The Progress Artel was founded after WWII on a government order along with many other cooperative associations to provide jobs for the disabled. It had a jewelry (ear-rings and brooches), a plastics (combs and soap-dishes) and a porcelain (china and figurines) workshop. Porcelain production was soon closed and the artel was put under the jewelry department.