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A BRONZE GROUP OF A SAMOYED ON A REINDEER-DRAWN SLEIGH
Lot 351

A BRONZE GROUP OF A SAMOYED ON A REINDEER-DRAWN SLEIGH

CAST BY WOERFFEL AFTER THE MODEL BY NIKOLAI LIEBERICH, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed6 June 2016

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GBP 80,500

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A BRONZE GROUP OF A SAMOYED ON A REINDEER-DRAWN SLEIGH
CAST BY WOERFFEL AFTER THE MODEL BY NIKOLAI LIEBERICH, LATE 19TH CENTURY
On an octagonal base, realistically cast as a Samoyed aboard a sleigh, drawn by four reindeer galloping through snow, signed in Cyrillic on base 'N. Lieberich', with foundry mark 'Zav. C.F. Woerffel / St Petersbourg'
36 in. (92 cm.) wide

Acquired from the artist by the previous owner in St Petersburg before the Revolution of 1917.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

For a similar model, see A. Yegorov, K. Zhuromsky, Nicolai Liberich. Sculpture and Graphics, Moscow, 2011, p. 120, pl. 14. A comparable bronze group was sold Christie’s, New York, April 9, 2014, lot 149.