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Lot 761
  • 761

'Listening to the Breath of the Sea': A biscuit porcelain figure, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, Amandus Adamson, St Petersburg, 1904

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • porcelain
  • height 82cm, 32 1/4 in.
modelled as a female nude resting on a rock, with incised Cyrillic signature A. Adamson and dated 1904

Literature

For a similar model, please see T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 109

Condition

Excellent condition, with very minor firing flaws scattered throughout as expected.
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