Progress Artel (Cooperative Association) of Leningrad
Young Footballer in a TsSKA Jersey
1960
1950–1960
19 x 8.3 x 5.5cm
With mark of Leningrad «Progress» group («Lenartprogress»)
Marks: underside: mark ‘71’ in red; ‘18’ in black overglaze.
cat. no. 318
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.