RESTING PEASANT

Creator(s): Dmitrovsk Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)

Currently in storage

About this object

This unglazed porcelain figure features an old peasant man seated on a pile of logs. He has grey hair with a receding hairline, and a grey beard that splits into two points at the end. The expression on the peasant's face is calm and self-absorbed, and he casts his eyes downwards. His rests his hands comfortably between his knees while he tips his feet back onto his heels. He wears a white shirt with reddish-brown polka dots that is loosely tied with a tasseled black belt. His black pants are tucked into beige felt boots with brown soles. The rectangular plinth that supports the figure resembles a plot of green grass with three brown logs stacked in a pile.

Object name:

RESTING PEASANT

Made from:

Porcelain

Made in:

USSR: Verbilki

Date made:

Late 1920

Size:

15.9 × 11.8 × 8.9 cm (6 1/4 × 4 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

25.567

Signature marks:

factory mark blue mark showing a star with crossed hammer and sickle and Cyrillic letters Ts, F,T,F; all surrounded with text in Cyrillic: Dmitrovskaia st. Verbilki sev. Zh. D. (Dmitrovskii station Verbilki of the Northern railroad) underside of the plinth porcelain mark number 21 impressed in the body of porcelain underneath the plinth handwritten mark in pencil: 5 - 40 (maybe indicating the price it was once sold for)

Credit line:

Gift of Yelena Harbick, 2004