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A RARE PORCELAIN GROUP OF THE KORYAKS FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
Lot 289 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION

A RARE PORCELAIN GROUP OF THE KORYAKS FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1790s

Closed30 November 2015

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A RARE PORCELAIN GROUP OF THE KORYAKS FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1790s
Realistically modelled and painted, the group depicting a standing figure of a Koryak woman, wearing a purple fur-lined coat, a green skirt and carrying a basket with vegetation on her right hand, with another basket by her feet, and a seated Koryak man, wearing a beige fur-lined coat, a red hood, and holding a squirrel in his right hand, with a dog seating by him, and a quiver with arrows by his feet, on an oval naturalistic base, moulded with Russian inscription ‘Grup: Kareka’, apparently unmarked
10 5/8 in. (27 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 the Koryaks, see A.K. Lanceray, Russian Porcelain, The Art of the First Russian Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1968, pl. 39. For another similar model, also see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 136.
A similar model of the Koryaks is held in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, and the Kuskovo Museum, Moscow.