BY THE TEREKHOV AND KISSELEV FACTORY, CIRCA 1840

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THREE PORCELAIN FIGURES OF LITERARY PERSONAGES
by the Terekhov and Kisselev Factory, circa 1840
All realistically modelled, the first figure depicting P. A. Karatygin in a brown frock-coat with a rolled manuscript in his left hand; together with a figure of Faddey Bulganin wearing a grey coat; and another standing man in a light green morning coat, all marked under shaped bases with incised green underglaze factory stamp in Cyrillic
The first 9 in. (22.8 cm.) high and smaller (3)

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Lot Essay

Faddey Venediktovich Bulganin (1789-1859) was a prolific right-wing journalist and writer, and founder of the literary journal 'The Northern Bee', who found himself the object of many of Pushkin's epigrams. Already published in 1926 in his book Les Marques de la Porcelain russe. In his book published in 1926, Les Marques de la Porcelaine russe, the collector A. Rozembergh mentioned the fact that porcelain figures by the Terekhov and Kisselev factory were produced in small numbers and have always been considered rare.

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