PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN INGERMANLAND PEASANT 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 INGERMANLAND PEASANT WOMAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780-1790s
Realistically modelled and painted, a figure of a woman wearing a white shirt, a pale purple buttoned tunic and long burgundy skirt, a traditional red hat, carrying a jug in her left hand, on a circular naturalistic base, moulded with Russian inscription 'Baba Mgeerskaya', apparently unmarked
8¾ in. (22.2 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 an Ingermanland woman, see G. Agarkova, N. Petrova, 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture St Petersburg 1744-1994, Desertina, 1994, p. 24. 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 from the Galerie Popoff was sold Christie’s, London, 12-13 October 2009, lot 153.

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