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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A KURILIAN MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
Lot 284 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A KURILIAN MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780s

Closed30 November 2015

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A KURILIAN MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780s
Realistically modelled and painted, a standing figure of a man with beard and long hair, wearing a beige cloak, a traditional long white shirt, holding a bow in his left hand, carrying a quiver with arrows across his shoulder, on a circular naturalistic base, moulded with Russian inscription 'Kurelits', incised with letter and numeral ‘H:II’ under base, also further incised with Cyrillic initials ‘T.F.’
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high

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.

Specialist note

For a similar model of a Kurilian man, 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 of a Kurilian man is held in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.