
Daria Khristova nee Chernenko
Department Director
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Department Director
Provenance
Acquired by a distinguished European businessman in the 1960s in Russia
Thence by descent to an important private collection, Europe
Originally modelled in the 1860s, the figure of an accordion player was based on M. Piccolo's illustration for A.P. Golitsinskiy, Street characters, 1860. For a comparable model from the 1880s, see Gardner XVIII-XIX. Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 130, no. 54.