Esther M. Lederberg
Figurines and Dishes

  1. Bread and Pretzel vendor
  2. Butcher
  3. Coachman (Yamshik)
  4. Cooper
  5. Dairymaid
  6. Dancing Peasant Woman
  7. Dancing Peasant Man
  8. Dandy #1
  9. Dandy #2
  10. Dishes: Baker and Kvass vendor
  11. Dishes: Blessing
  12. Dishes: Charmanka player
  13. Dishes: Chimney sweep and Vendor
  14. Dishes: Glazier
  15. Dishes: Lampman
  16. Dishes: Rendezvous
  17. Dishes: Showing a Seal
  18. Drawing Water at the Well
  19. Drinking Kvass
  20. Fashionable Lady
  21. Fighting Boxers
  22. Fishmonger #1
  23. Fishmonger #2
  24. Flower vendor #1
  25. Flower vendor #2
  26. Glazier #1
  27. Glazier #2
  28. Itinerant
  29. Jew with watch
  30. Kitchenhand
  31. Kocar (using sythe or koca)
  32. Kvass vendor
  33. Lackey #1
  34. Lackey #2
  35. Lubok vendor
  36. Maidservant
  37. Pancake vendor
  38. Paska vendor
  39. Peasant braiding baste shoes
  40. Postman
  41. Sbiten vendor
  42. Shoe vendor
  43. Sweeper (dvornik)
  44. Ink-set: Peasant with stool
  45. Tradeswoman (second hand dealer) or <<распространительница>>
  46. Water Carrier (Vodonoska)

Porcelain figurines and designs on dishes also recorded the social environment of Russia, a visual record of what the writer Nikolai Nekrasov saw in "Petersburg: The Physiology of a City".

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