Lot Essay
For a similar model, see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 137.
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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PEASANT MAN PLAYING THE BALALAIKA
BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1830-1850S
Details
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PEASANT MAN PLAYING THE BALALAIKA
BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1830-1850s
Realistically modelled and painted as a peasant playing the balalaika, wearing a traditional Russian belted rubakha, blue trousers, black boots and brown hat, on an oval base moulded with gilt scrolls, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark and impressed letter ‘A’
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high
BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1830-1850s
Realistically modelled and painted as a peasant playing the balalaika, wearing a traditional Russian belted rubakha, blue trousers, black boots and brown hat, on an oval base moulded with gilt scrolls, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark and impressed letter ‘A’
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high
Provenance
With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1973.
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Aleksandra Babenko