5 June 2019 Important Russian Art Auctions, at Asia House

5 June 2019

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


A Porcelain Figurine of a Peasant Making a Bast Shoe

* 394.

A Porcelain Figurine of a Peasant Making a Bast Shoe


800–1,200 GBP


MIKLASHEVSKY MANUFACTORY, VOLOKITINO, 1839–1861
Height 17 cm.

Realistically modelled and painted, a seated figure of a man wearing a traditional Russian belted kaftan shirt, blue and white trousers, making a bast shoe, on a on rectangular base painted with floor boards, with overglaze manufactory mark.


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