Lot Essay
For a similar model of a bast shoe maker, see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 121.
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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A BAST SHOE MAKER
BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1820-1830S
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A BAST SHOE MAKER
BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1820-1830s
Realistically modelled and painted, the seated figure of a man wearing a traditional Russian belted rubakha, blue trousers, making a bast shoe, on a rectangular base painted with floor boards, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark
6 in (16.5 cm.) high
BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1820-1830s
Realistically modelled and painted, the seated figure of a man wearing a traditional Russian belted rubakha, blue trousers, making a bast shoe, on a rectangular base painted with floor boards, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark
6 in (16.5 cm.) high
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