AUCTION 35: DECEMBER 2022 DECORATIVE AND FINE ART SALE

A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF BAST SHOE MAKER BY POPOV

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Start price: $900

Estimated price: $1,500 - $2,000

Buyer's premium: 28%

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

Glazed porcelain figurine depicting a seated figure of a man wearing a traditional Russian belted kaftan shirt, and blue trousers, making a bast shoe. Russian Empire, the factory of Alexei Popov, mid-nineteenth century. Marked on the bottom with a maker’s mark in blue ink underglaze. The surface is neatly hand-painted. Features a blue underglaze and an impressed manufactory mark on the bottom. Reference: The figurine was published in the catalog “Russia. Private factories. Porcelain sculptures, ” by Sviridov D.N., Samizdat, St. Petersburg, 2017, p. 296-297.

Dimensions: H: 6 in., (15 cm.)

Condition: Very good, no chips or cracks.