Lot 283
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A KABARDINIAN WOMAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A KABARDINIAN WOMAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780s

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A KABARDINIAN WOMAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1780s
Realistically modelled and painted, a figure of a woman wearing a white shirt, a pale purple buttoned vest, a long terracotta skirt with a netted tassel belt, and a traditional light green head scarf, carrying a fish in her left hand, on a circular naturalistic base, moulded with Russian inscription 'Kabar: Baba', incised with letter and numeral ‘H:II’ under base
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in Russia by Count Louis de Jonghe d'Ardoye (1820-1893), who served as a Belgian diplomat in Russia in the 1860s.
By descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

For a similar model of a Kabardinian woman, see G. Agarkova, N. Petrova, 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture St Petersburg 1744-1994, Desertina, 1994, p. 24. For another similar model, also see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, pp. 137, 139.
Similar models of a Kabardinian woman are held in the collections of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, and the Kuskovo Museum, Moscow.

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