A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN ESTLAND WOMAN FROM THE 'PEOPLES OF RUSSIA' SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780-1790S
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN ESTLAND WOMAN FROM THE 'PEOPLES OF RUSSIA' SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780-1790s
Realistically modelled and painted, a standing figure of a woman, wearing a pale green hat and holding berries in her apron and right hand, on a circular base, apparently unmarked
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high
Provenance
With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1973 (label under base).
For a similar model of a native Estland woman, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 136.