BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A group of porcelain figures, street vendors and peasants
by the Gardner Porcelain Factory, Moscow, late 19th and early 20th century
Figure of a schuschki vendor; another of a schuschki and tea vendor; a cobbler mending an officers boot; a peasant man seated on logs; a mother and baby; dancing peasant girl, marked under bases
7¼ in. (8.5 cm.) to 6 in. (15.3 cm.) (6)

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Please note that the seated man in red shirt top right of the illustration of pg 61 is erroneously marked 62 and should read 63 and is part of the lot.

Lot Essay

Aleksandr Orlovskii (1777-1832) depicted such vendors in the first ever lithographs produced in Russia. A large number of these street vendors were also reproduced in the St. Petersburg periodical The Magic Lantern (Volshebnoi fonar') in 1817. This topic continued to be a favourite amongst artists until the beginning of the 20th Century, when the photographer William Carrick also contributed to the genre.

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