Kiselev, Anatolii Alexandrovich
Leningrad Porcelain Goods Factory
The Frog Princess
1956
Designed 1956
14.3 x 11.4 x 10.8 cm
Marks: underside: Mark ‘55’ in blue; ‘30’ in brown overglaze
cat. no. 206
Leningrad Experimental Porcelain Factory
Founded in the 1920s at the VNIIF (All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of the Porcelain and Faience Industries, or Vsesoiuznyi nauchno-issledovatel’skii institute farforo-faiansovoi promyshlennsosti) to study production of technical ceramics. Production of artistic goods (and the LZFI mark) associated with the 1950s. In the 1970s or 1980s, it was renamed the Leningrad Experimental Factory (Leningradskii opytnyi zavod). Was renamed AOOT “Farfor” St. Petersburg Experimental Ceramics Factory.