Lot Essay
This model is based on the engraving of the Inger peasant woman from:
I. G. Georgii.
I. G. Georgii.
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780-1790
Details
A porcelain figure of an Inger peasant woman
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, 1780-1790
Realistically modelled, a figure of a woman wearing a white shirt and a pale purple buttoned tunic and long brown skirt, the traditional head-dress of similar colours, carrying a jug in her left hand, on a circular moulded naturalistic base inscribed on the back in Cyrillic 'M GERSKAYA', marked under base with incised Cyrillic 'A'
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, 1780-1790
Realistically modelled, a figure of a woman wearing a white shirt and a pale purple buttoned tunic and long brown skirt, the traditional head-dress of similar colours, carrying a jug in her left hand, on a circular moulded naturalistic base inscribed on the back in Cyrillic 'M GERSKAYA', marked under base with incised Cyrillic 'A'
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high
Literature
Masterpieces of 18th c..., number 181.
Exhibited
Brussels, Exposition d'Art Russe Ancien et Moderne, Le Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles, 1928.
Sèvres, Musée céramique de Sèvres, Exposition de ceramiques russes anciennes, April-October 1929, cat. 37, p. 2.
London, 1935, 1 Belgrave Square, Exhibition of Russian Art, 4 June-13 July 1935, p. 39, number AK.
Sèvres, Musée céramique de Sèvres, Exposition de ceramiques russes anciennes, April-October 1929, cat. 37, p. 2.
London, 1935, 1 Belgrave Square, Exhibition of Russian Art, 4 June-13 July 1935, p. 39, number AK.
Special notice
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Alexis de Tiesenhausen
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