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拍品專文
One of about 60 individual hardstone figures of 'Russian and English types' which Franz Birbaum in his memoirs regards as 'the most remarkable stone creations,' and where he makes special mention of the modeller Georgii Konstantinovich Savitskii as the artist of some of these figures.
The figure follows the tradition of the porcelain factories of the late 18th and 19th Centuries, which in turn were inspired by the publication of J.G. Georgi's work Description de toutes les Nations de l'Empire de Russie' in St. Petersburg in 1776-1777, and later of Collection de Cris et Costumes de Paysans et Paysannes de St. Petersburg by A.O. Orlovskii in 1825.
Birbaum emphasises the craftsmanship of Savitskii and comments in his memoirs on its workmanship, 'The last-named figurines are executed after models by Gaorgii Savitskii which bears witness to this natural sensitivity and powers of observation'. Each stone is carefully chosen especially here with the use of jasper and quartz, and delicately carved to represent the naturalistic elements from the flesh to the cloth.
Georgii Konstantinovich Savitskii (1887-1947) had graduated from the Academy of Arts, later becoming a professor and academician. For Fabergé he was both a designer carrrying out individual commissions as well as the talented carver in hardstones so admired by Birbaum, who stated that his other figures were a Tatar street-pedler, the reserve soldier of 1914 and an ice-carrier. Valentin Skurlov, co-author with T.F. Fabergé and A.S. Gorynia of Fabergé and the Petersburg Jewellers, (St. Petersburg, 1977) stresses the individuality of each of the carved figures, which is particularly evident here in the smile and the attitude of this young peasant woman.
For another carved hardstone model created in the Fabergé workshops see Christie's London, November 25, 2003, lot 83, sold for 750,000 english pounds.
The figure follows the tradition of the porcelain factories of the late 18th and 19th Centuries, which in turn were inspired by the publication of J.G. Georgi's work Description de toutes les Nations de l'Empire de Russie' in St. Petersburg in 1776-1777, and later of Collection de Cris et Costumes de Paysans et Paysannes de St. Petersburg by A.O. Orlovskii in 1825.
Birbaum emphasises the craftsmanship of Savitskii and comments in his memoirs on its workmanship, 'The last-named figurines are executed after models by Gaorgii Savitskii which bears witness to this natural sensitivity and powers of observation'. Each stone is carefully chosen especially here with the use of jasper and quartz, and delicately carved to represent the naturalistic elements from the flesh to the cloth.
Georgii Konstantinovich Savitskii (1887-1947) had graduated from the Academy of Arts, later becoming a professor and academician. For Fabergé he was both a designer carrrying out individual commissions as well as the talented carver in hardstones so admired by Birbaum, who stated that his other figures were a Tatar street-pedler, the reserve soldier of 1914 and an ice-carrier. Valentin Skurlov, co-author with T.F. Fabergé and A.S. Gorynia of Fabergé and the Petersburg Jewellers, (St. Petersburg, 1977) stresses the individuality of each of the carved figures, which is particularly evident here in the smile and the attitude of this young peasant woman.
For another carved hardstone model created in the Fabergé workshops see Christie's London, November 25, 2003, lot 83, sold for 750,000 english pounds.