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A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN FIGURE GROUP OF 'PAUL ET VIRGINIE'
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A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN FIGURE GROUP OF 'PAUL ET VIRGINIE'

BY THE POPOV FACTORY, MID-19TH CENTURY, INCISED MARK PICKED OUT IN BLUE

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A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN FIGURE GROUP OF 'PAUL ET VIRGINIE' BY THE POPOV FACTORY, MID-19TH CENTURY, INCISED MARK PICKED OUT IN BLUE Modelled with linked arms beside a tree stump, taking shelter beneath her pinafore 6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

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Paul et Virginie was a popular love story by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788 ad purportedly a favourite of Napoleon Bonaparte. The model is very similar to a design by jean-Baptiste Huet which was reproduced on jouy cotton manufactured by Christophe-Phillipe Oberkampf in circa 1802.

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