This Grape Harvesters group was made by the Popov Factory of Russia in the nineteenth century. I didn’t know that when I purchased it but the quality spoke for itself. My instincts were rewarded only a few weeks after it arrived when I spotted a marked example in a 2015 MacDougall’s catalogue.
This copy is more lavishly enamelled than the one in the catalogue. The harvesting scene painted on the base seen here is absent on the other. The one in the catalogue being half of a pair, there may still be a mate to this out there.
Incised numbers under the base though no factory mark.
An incredibly complex piece assembled from at least twenty press moulded parts. With the fine enamelling, a very expensive sculpture to produce.
Approximately 33 cm in height.
