Fresh Fish Vendor

Made by: Unknown ||Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste __After

On view in: Passageway to Icon Room

About this object

The statuette shows an old peddler wearing a fur-trimmed hat, coat and boots. He also wears fur mittens and carries a tray on his head covered with a cloth. He holds this with his left hand. He is bearded. The tray has barrel-like sides and the ground is rough. He has a tree stump behind him for support.

Category:

CERAMICS, GERMAN

Object name:

Fresh Fish Vendor

Made from:

Biscuit

Made in:

GERMANY?

Date made:

Late 19th c.

Size:

overall __16.50 IN __ __ __6.56 IN
overall __41.91 CM __ __ __16.67 CM

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

26.52

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

MARK __underneath: impress of MF 702 in two circles

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973

Featured in publication:

"Russian Porcelains: The Gardner, Iusupov, Batenin, Novyi, Popov, Kudinov, Sipiagin, Fomin, Safronov, Kiselev, Kornilov, Gulin, Khrapunov-Novyi, Sabanin, Miklashevskii, Guzhev, Ikonnikov, and Kuznetsov Factories"