4 June 2014
    
        
        GARDNER MANUFACTORY, MOSCOW, LATE 1810–1820s                 
        Height 17.5 cm.
        5,000–7,000 GBP
    
Provenance: Anonymous sale; Russian Works of  Art, Fabergé and
Icons, Sotheby’s Olympia London, 22 May 2003, lot 220.
Realistically modelled, wearing a purple turban headscarf, and pale pistachio-coloured coat with fur neckpiece over a patterned white dress and carrying a bundle of  books in each hand, standing on a square naturalistic base, with stamped and underglaze manufactory mark.
                
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