A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A FINNISH WOMAN FROM THE 'PEOPLES OF RUSSIA' SERIES
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A FINNISH WOMAN FROM THE 'PEOPLES OF RUSSIA' SERIES

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

Closed26 November 2018

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GBP 15,000

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A FINNISH WOMAN FROM THE 'PEOPLES OF RUSSIA' SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF CATHERINE THE GREAT, 1780-1790s
Realistically modelled and painted, a standing figure of a woman, wearing a light purple dress, a gilt ochre apron and belt, a pink head scarf, holding a handkerchief in her left hand, on a circular naturalistic base, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar model of a Finnish woman, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 135.