Live Auction 1571Important Russian Art
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN ICE CREAM VENDOR FROM THE 'VENDORS AND CRAFTSMEN' SERIES
Lot 358 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN ICE CREAM VENDOR FROM THE 'VENDORS AND CRAFTSMEN' SERIES

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780-1790S

Closed24 November 2014

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GBP 27,500

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN ICE CREAM VENDOR FROM THE 'VENDORS AND CRAFTSMEN' SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780-1790s
Realistically modelled and painted, the standing figure of a man wearing a green jacket and white apron, holding a basket in his right hand and a black top hat in his left hand, standing on a circular naturalistic base, apparently unmarked
8 in. (20.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For similar models of an ice cream vendor, see T.V. Kudriavtseva, Russkii Imperatorskiy Farfor, St Petersburg, 2003, p. 70, and A.K. Lanceray, Russian Porcelain, The Art of the First Russian Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1968, pl. 41.