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A RARE PORCELAIN GROUP OF A FISH VENDOR FROM THE 'VENDORS AND CRAFTSMEN' SERIES
Lot 233 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

A RARE PORCELAIN GROUP OF A FISH VENDOR FROM THE 'VENDORS AND CRAFTSMEN' SERIES

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF CATHERINE THE GREAT, 1780-1790s

Closed26 November 2018

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A RARE PORCELAIN GROUP OF A FISH VENDOR FROM THE 'VENDORS AND CRAFTSMEN' SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF CATHERINE THE GREAT, 1780-1790s
Realistically modelled and painted, the group depicting a kneeling fisherman in brown coat, with a fish tub by his feet, offering fish to a standing woman, wearing a pink shawl over a white dress, with her young daughter standing behind, holding a cat, on a circular naturalistic base, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high

Property of a Connecticut Private Collector; Sotheby’s, New York, 14 December 1981, lot 127.

Specialist note

For a similar model, see A.K. Lanceray, Russian Porcelain, The Art of the First Russian Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1968, pl. 48. Comparable models are held in the collections of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, and the Kuskovo Museum, Moscow (FR-8510, FR-10944).