A RUSSIAN BRONZE GROUP OF A TROIKA AND SLEDGE, cast from a model by Alexei Gratchev, the troika bearing an elegant couple with the driver urging forward the three galloping horses, a small horse-drawn sleigh carrying a single rider in the opposite direction, on naturalistic ground, signed and inscribed in Cyrillic 'Modelled by Gratchev', with name of the founder 'Fabr. C.F. Woerffel St. Petersbourg', and dated '1877' | Christie's

Lot 143

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A RUSSIAN BRONZE GROUP OF A TROIKA AND SLEDGE, cast from a model by Alexei Gratchev, the troika bearing an elegant couple with the driver urging forward the three galloping horses, a small horse-drawn sleigh carrying a single rider in the opposite direction, on naturalistic ground, signed and inscribed in Cyrillic 'Modelled by Gratchev', with name of the founder 'Fabr. C.F. Woerffel St. Petersbourg', and dated '1877'

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A RUSSIAN BRONZE GROUP OF A TROIKA AND SLEDGE, cast from a model by Alexei Gratchev, the troika bearing an elegant couple with the driver urging forward the three galloping horses, a small horse-drawn sleigh carrying a single rider in the opposite direction, on naturalistic ground, signed and inscribed in Cyrillic 'Modelled by Gratchev', with name of the founder 'Fabr. C.F. Woerffel St. Petersbourg', and dated '1877'
54.5 x 52 x 28.5 cm

Literature

H. Berman, Bronzes, Sculptors & Founders 1800-1930, Chicago, 1976, fig. 1068
C. Payne, Animals in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, 1986, p. 387, fig. M32

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