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The Zeisel Russian Medallion
During Zeisel's Russian imprisonment another hero of the Stalinist era, her
friend and colleague, the famed chief sculptor of the Lomonosov Porcelain
Factory, Natalia Dan'ko (pronounced donCOE) was creating a series of bas-relief
medallions of friends and colleagues from the intellectual and artistic circles
of Moscow and St. Petersburg who had been caught in the cycle of betrayal,
trials, and murders, and whom she wanted to commemorate, expecting that they
would not survive this nightmare time. All of the medallions were hidden, for to
be caught with them would mean that their creator would in turn be condemned.
Natalya Dan'ko died of starvation in 1942 during the siege of Leningrad, at
about the time that Eva Zeisel was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art and
Castleton China to create Museum dinnerware.
In the early 1990's, during the glasnost period, the charges against Stricker
were legally overturned and she was declared "rehabilitated." Later in
that decade, during the time of the rebuilding at the Lomonosov Factory in St.
Petersburg, the medallion of Eva Stricker was taken from hiding, and plans were
made to present it to the person who, they had recently discovered, had
re-emerged as the world-famous Eva Zeisel. In April 2000, a delegation of 11
designers and artists from Lomonosov traveled to New York and presented Eva with
the medallion which Natalya had made for her. After 60 years, Eva held in her
hands the tribute from her friend.
Later that year Eva Zeisel authorized
the Lomonosov Factory in St. Petersburg to cast a limited numbered edition of
250 of the Dan'ko medallions, and authorized their exclusive distribution
through the Eva Zeisel forum for whom we are agents. Each medallion is in a
presentation case with a certificate of authenticity and the story of the
creation of the medallion
Dan'ko Zeisel Medallion $50.00
Add $5.00 for shipping in the U.S.
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