SEATED PEASANT

Creator(s): Gardner Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)

Currently in storage

About this object

Figure of a bearded peasant seated on a tree stump. His right foot is resting on a small round wooden support. He is wearing a white shirt embroidered in red around the edges of the sleeves, collar and along the lower part of the shirt; soft grey knee-length pants, and his feet and legs are wrapped in white cotton cloth. On his feet he wears traditional Russian shoes made from bark of a tree. The shoes, called lapti, in honey-brown color are molded to imitate the interlace pattern of the woven peasant shoes. The shoes are attached with long brown strings wrapped around the peasant's ankles. He is leaning forward, holding a bast shoe (lapot') on one of his elevated knees. In the right hand he holds a tool shaped like a hook that helps him to lace a long slim string of bark into the shoe. With his left hand he pulls the string out. The base of the statuette is square and imitates wooden boards inside the peasant hut.

Object name:

SEATED PEASANT

Made from:

Porcelain

Made in:

Verbilki, Russia

Date made:

1810-1830

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

25.559

Signature marks:

MARKS St. George right ; Gardner in Cyrillic letters; 46 [pressed into the porcelain]; double-headed eagle; St. George right; Gardner Factory in Moscow in Cyrillic letters [printed in brown-red ink]

Credit line:

Anonymous Gift, 2001