Soloha

The character Solokha originates from the classic short story The Night Before Christmas, written by the renowned author Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. The figurine depicts a woman in traditional Ukrainian folk attire, crushing ingredients in a mortar.

It was produced in the Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR) by the renowned Kiev Experimental Ceramic-Artistic Factory (Kiev EKKhZ). This popular model, dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, was created by the well-known Soviet sculptor and artist Vladislav Ivanovich Shcherbina.

Ukraine, 1960s–1980s, porcelain, marked, height 23 cm