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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SELLER OF COSMETICS
Lot 328 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SELLER OF COSMETICS

BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed25 November 2013

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GBP 10,000

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SELLER OF COSMETICS
BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, MID-19TH CENTURY
Humorously modelled and painted, on a circular base, holding a box with bottles, wearing a black skirt and brown shirt, on a circular base, marked under base with blue underglaze porcelain mark
7½ in. (19.1 cm.) high

With Galerie Popoff, Paris (label under base).

Specialist note

For a similar figure of a seller of cosmetics (lipstick), see T.I. Dulkina and N.A. Asharina, Russkaia keramika i steklo 18-19 vekov: Sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo Muzeia, Moscow, 1978, p. 179, no. 134.