Decorative vase showing Vera Mukhina’s Worker and Peasant Woman sculpture
1950- (?)
The 1950s (?)
Uncolored glass with cobalt coloring, deep etching, diamond cutting
Height 22.9 cm
cat. 344
The Worker and Peasant Woman sculpture decorated the Soviet pavilion at the Paris World Fair of 1937 (sculptor V.I. Mukhina, 1889–1953, architect B.M. Iofan, 1891–1976). It was subsequently moved to the northern entrance to the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. One of the brightest artistic symbols of the epoch, the sculpture has become its emblem. The representation of the Worker and Peasant Woman sculpture was copied extensively in works of decorative and applied art.