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TWO RARE PORCELAIN ALLEGORICAL FIGURES
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TWO RARE PORCELAIN ALLEGORICAL FIGURES

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ELIZABETH I

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TWO RARE PORCELAIN ALLEGORICAL FIGURES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ELIZABETH I
Realistically modelled and painted, one as a woman wearing a patterned dress, holding a sheaf of wheat in her left hand and a sickle in her right hand, the other as a man wearing a pink cloak and patterned robe, both on a naturalistic base, both apparently unmarked
The woman: 7¼ in. (17.8 cm.) high
The man: 7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

These two figures are very rare examples of the early production of the Imperial Porcelain Factory during the reign of Elizabeth I in the mid-18th century. Baron N.B. von Wolf describes the male figurine in his monograph as a man in traditional Eastern dress.

For a similar model of the male figure from the collection of Prince A.S. Dolgorukov, see N.B. von Wolf, Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 1906, p. 48, illustrated; also see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 57, illustrated.

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