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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SIBERIAN BUKHAR MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
Lot 380

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

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

Closed5 June 2017

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GBP 27,500

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SIBERIAN BUKHAR MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780-1790s
Realistically modelled and painted, a figure of a man wearing a traditional light blue fur-lined coat, and orange shoes, holding a purple hat in his right hand, on a circular naturalistic base, incised with numeral ‘12’ under base
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar model of a Siberian Bukhar man, see A.K. Lanceray, Russian Porcelain, The Art of the First Russian Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1968, pl. 36. 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 Siberian Bukhar man was sold Christie’s, London, 30 November 2015, lot 287.