Lot 287
287
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SIBERIAN BUKHAR MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SIBERIAN BUKHAR MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780-1790s

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SIBERIAN BUKHAR MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780-1790s
Realistically modelled and painted, a figure of a man wearing a traditional terracotta fur-lined coat, a black head-wear, holding a purple hat in his right hand and a cane in his left hand, on a circular naturalistic base, moulded with Russian inscription 'Bukhar', incised with letter and numeral ‘H:II’ under base
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in Russia by Count Louis de Jonghe d'Ardoye (1820-1893), who served as a Belgian diplomat in Russia in the 1860s.
By descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

For a similar model of a Siberian Bukhar man, see A.K. Lanceray, Russian Porcelain, The Art of the First Russian Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1968, pl. 36. For another similar model, also see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, pp. 134, 137.
A similar model of a Siberian Bukhar man is held in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg.

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