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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A BERRY SELLER FROM THE 'VENDORS AND CRAFTSMEN' SERIES
Lot 315 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART IV

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A BERRY SELLER FROM THE 'VENDORS AND CRAFTSMEN' SERIES

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

Closed1 June 2015

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GBP 22,500

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A BERRY SELLER FROM THE 'VENDORS AND CRAFTSMEN' SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780-1790s
Realistically modelled and painted, the standing figure of a woman wearing a white shirt, a traditional lilac and ochre sarafan, holding a sack in her right hand, and coins in her left hand, on a circular naturalistic base, moulded with Russian inscription ‘Ru: Yagodnitsa’, apparently unmarked
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high

With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1976 (label under base).

Specialist note

For a similar model of a berry seller, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 135. For another similar model, see M. Baruch, et al., Shedevry Russkogo Farfora XVIII Veka iz Sobraniya Galerei 'Popov & Co' [Masterpieces of Russian 18th Century Porcelain, from the Collection of 'Popov & Co'], Moscow, 2009, p. 20.