Drunken Golden Little Mouse (height 14.5 cm) by Mikhail Shemyakin, IFSZ

Project Author: Mikhail Shemyakin
Material: Hard porcelain
Decoration: Underglaze painting, hand casting.
Type of Painting: Hand painting
Series: Drunken Mouse by Shemyakin
Sculpture Type: Contemporary sculpture
Dimensions: 8 × 8 cm
Height: 14.5 cm
Weight: 190 g
Imperial Porcelain Factory
Country: Russia
Year of First Release: 2006
Status: No longer in production
Form Author: M. M. Shemyakin

The porcelain work was created as part of a special project during Mikhail Shemyakin's collaboration with the Imperial Porcelain Factory in 2006. "Drunken Mouse" is one of the sculptures dedicated to a series of characters from the ballet of the same name, staged at the Mariinsky Theater with sets and costumes by the world-renowned artist.

Designer and Form Author:
Mikhail Mikhailovich Shemyakin (b. 1943) – artist, sculptor, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of Kabardino-Balkaria, People's Artist of the Republic of Adygea, honorary doctor of the University of San Francisco. Shemyakin's works are part of the permanent collections of museums in the USA, Russia, France, Poland, and CIS countries. He is the author of monuments such as "Peter the Great" (1991), "Victims of Political Repression" (1995), "Founding Architects" (1995) in Saint Petersburg, as well as monuments in New York, Paris, London, and other cities around the world.