Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons
Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons
Property from a Private European Collection
Auction Closed
November 30, 06:31 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
A bourgeois woman selling her wares at a market: a Soviet porcelain figure, after a design by Brusketti-Mitrokhina, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1919
the figure standing wearing a purple coat, black fishnet veil, white and green hat and white skirt, holding embroidered garments, a teddy bear at her feet, a painted banner on the base inscribed 'the Year 1919' in Cyrillic, inscribed under the base in black KNP in Cyrillic, 1918-1923, 94/33, impressed IK in Cyrillic, indistinct green marks
height 28cm; 11 in.
Mikhail Alexeyevich Sergeev (1888-1965), scientist and economist, one of the first commissars of the State Bank of the USSR
Private Collection
Christie's London, 26 November 2018, lot 253