Michael Schilkin
Michael Schilkin, 'Leonardo da Vinci', a stoneware sculpture, Royal Copenhagen, Denmark 1947.
Glazed in beige and brown hues. Marked 'Efter Leonardo da Vinci'. Signed M. Sch. and with maker's mark in underglaze blue. Width 34, depth circa 22, height 54 cm.
Firing cracks to the base. Uneven crazing. Glaze spots.
Literature
Tuija Tervo, Harri Kalhaa, Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse, 'Michael Schilkin 1900-1962', Förlagsaktiebolag W. Hagelstam, Finland 1996, see p 21.
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Due to the troubled political situation after World War II in Finland, Russian-born people were deported and imprisoned in the Soviet Union. Many Russian emigrants fled Finland and Schilkin decided to go to Denmark and in the spring of 1947 worked for three months for Royal Copenhagen. The result of the stay was around thirty ceramic sculptures and wall plaques with animal and human motifs, some of which are still part of the factory's museum collections.
Designer
Michael Schilkin (1900-1962) was a Finnish sculptor and ceramicist born in Trubino, Russia. He moved to Finland in 1921 and studied at the Central School of Art. Eventually he was hired at the Arabia porcelain factory. He is mainly known for his stoneware and clay figurines depicting wild animals, but also created human figures and wall reliefs in public places with musty glazes in earth tones. The sculptures are powerful with a humorous tone.
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