26 November 2014 Russian Art Auctions
26 November 2014
* 317. A PORCELAIN FIGURINE OF A TURKISH MAN SMOKING A PIPE
PRIVATE MANUFACTORY, 19TH CENTURY
Height 20.5 cm.
3,000–5,000 GBP
Related literature: For a similar work, see V.V. Zamenov (ed.), Chastnye farforovye zavody Rossiyskoi Imperii, Saint Petersburg, Orchestr, Moscow, Rinal-Inter, 2011, p.507.
Realistically modelled, seated on a marbled stool, the bearded man holds a long pipe in his right hand and a small lilac pouch in his left, dressed in a yellow fur-trimmed coat, a plum-coloured fez with blue turban with matching plum tunic and blue sash, over lime-green undertunic, on a green marbled square base, apparently unmarked.
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