Nikolai Iwanowitsch Lieberich

LOT 103 NIKOLAI IVANOVICH LIEBERICH (1828-1883), A RUSSIAN CASTIRON GROUP OF A PEASANT GIRL WITH A RAKE ON HORSEBACK,1870-1880 depicting a peasant girl wearing a sarafan and headscarf holdinga rake riding on horseback, set on an ebonized wood base cast with signature, Kasli foundry mark, copies after the goldmedal the factory won at the 1870 All-Russian ManufacturingExhibition, and the signature of factory modeler V. Teplyakov 7,000—9,000 USD measurements measurements length 17 3/4 in. alternate measurements 45 cm Description depicting a peasant girl wearing a sarafan and headscarf holdinga rake riding on horseback, set on an ebonized wood base cast with signature, Kasli foundry mark, copies after the goldmedal the factory won at the 1870 All-Russian ManufacturingExhibition, and the signature of factory modeler V. Teplyakov CATALOGUE NOTE The Kasli Cast Iron Manufactory made several editions of NikolaiLieberich's popular design of a young peasant girl on horseback inthe late nineteenth and into the twentieth century. As the marks onthis particularly fine cast indicate, this was one of the earliestand was manufactured between 1870 and 1880 when factory modeler V.Teplyakov was active. For more on this design and mark, see Z.G.Malaeva, Kasli: Khudozhestvennoe lit'e iz chuguna, Moscow, 2005,pp. 86, 150.

A Russian Bronze Figural Group, Nicolai Ivanovich Lieberich (Liberich), The Wolf Hunt , depicting two cossacks, their horses and hounds around a felled wolf, signed, further impressed with foundry mark, raised on an elongated octagonal base. Overall width 16 inches. Estimate $ 5,000-7,000

MODEL CAST THIRD-QUARTER 19TH CENTURY depicting a man on a reindeer drawn sleigh, inscribed N. Liberich in Cyrillic, dark brown patina. length 36 in. (91.4 cm.) A similar cast sold Sotheby's, New York, Property of the Haussner Family Limited Partnership, November 3, 1999, lot 206. For a footnote on Nicolai Ivanovich Liberich, please see lot 166.

Lot: 213 NIKOLAI IVANOVICH LIBERICH (Russian 1828-1883) Resting Bear Bronze with dark brown patina Inscribed on base and with Woerffel foundry mark Length 7.75 inches (20 cm) Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,500.00 € 1,000 - 1,700