5 June 2019 Important Russian Art Auctions, at Asia House
5 June 2019
* 392.
Two Porcelain Figurines of a Peasant Woman Spinning and an Old Man Making a Bast Shoe
1,000–1,200 GBP
POPOV MANUFACTORY, MOSCOW, 1830–1840s
Height of the woman 14 cm, of the man 15 cm.
Realistically modelled and painted, a seated figure of a man wearing a traditional Russian belted kaftan shirt, blue trousers, making a bast shoe; a seated figure of an old woman, wearing a blue sarafan with a white head scarf, sitting on a wooden chest, both on rectangular bases painted with floor boards, with blue underglaze and impressed manufactory mark.
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