BOX WITH A FIGURE OF A RECLINING REAPERESS
Creator(s): Sipiagin Factory (Manufacturer)
On view in: Breakfast Room
About this object
Box is formed as a sheaf of wheat upon which reclines a peasant girl in costume holding a sickle and an apron full of vari-colored flowers. Hat and hair are black. Blouse is white and bodice is several colors. Outer skirt is red and petticoat in stripes of red, white and gold. Slippers are red.
- Object name:
- BOX WITH A FIGURE OF A RECLINING REAPERESS
- Made from:
- Hard paste porcelain
- Made in:
- Elizavetino, Russia
- Date made:
- 1856-1865
- Size:
- 10.5 × 8.9 × 18.4 cm (4 1/8 × 3 1/2 × 7 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.143.1-2
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK on bottom in red: see Saltykov #156, see Popov #310 1850s-1865
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973