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PROBABLY BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A WATER CARRIER [VODONOSKA]
PROBABLY BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Realistically modelled and painted after a model by S.S. Pimenov, wearing a blue unglazed sarafan, white shirt and gold kokoshnik, carrying a simulated wood yoke suspending two buckets, on a naturalistic circular base, apparently unmarked, incised with numeral '12' under base
9 1/8 in. (23 cm.) high
PROBABLY BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Realistically modelled and painted after a model by S.S. Pimenov, wearing a blue unglazed sarafan, white shirt and gold kokoshnik, carrying a simulated wood yoke suspending two buckets, on a naturalistic circular base, apparently unmarked, incised with numeral '12' under base
9 1/8 in. (23 cm.) high
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