Lot 356
356
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN ESTLAND WOMAN FROM THE 'PEOPLES OF RUSSIA' SERIES
PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III
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, the standing figure of a woman wearing a salmon pink gilt hat, and holding berries in her apron on a circular naturalistic base, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark
8½ in. (22 cm.) high
Provenance
With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1976.

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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. For other similar models, see T.V. Kudriavtseva, Russkii Imperatorskiy Farfor, St Petersburg, 2003, p. 71, and M. Baruch, et al., Shedevry Russkogo Farfora XVIII Veka iz Sobraniya Galerei 'Popov & Co' [Masterpieces of Russian 18th Century Porcelain, from the Collection of 'Popov & Co'], Moscow, 2009, p. 20.

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