Lot Essay
A similar figure, differently painted and most likely of a later date, can be found in the collection of the Kuskovo Museum.
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1770S
Details
A porcelain figure depicting Winter
by the Gardner Porcelain Factory, Moscow, 1770s
A standing figure of a bare-foot boy, leaning on a tree-trunk, with his arms crossed, looking down, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and a pink vest with gilt buttons, trousers with blue and orange stripes, on a circular moulded base decorated with purple and gilt scrolls, marked under base with dark blue underglaze Cyrillic 'G', and a paper label of Paris Customs
7½ in. (18.7 cm.) high
by the Gardner Porcelain Factory, Moscow, 1770s
A standing figure of a bare-foot boy, leaning on a tree-trunk, with his arms crossed, looking down, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and a pink vest with gilt buttons, trousers with blue and orange stripes, on a circular moulded base decorated with purple and gilt scrolls, marked under base with dark blue underglaze Cyrillic 'G', and a paper label of Paris Customs
7½ in. (18.7 cm.) high
Literature
Masterpieces of 18th c..., number 193.
Exhibited
Brussels, Exposition d'Art Russe Ancien et Moderne, Le Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles, 1928.
Sèvres, Musée céramique de Sèvres, Exposition de ceramiques russes anciennes, April-October 1929, cat. 273, p. 11.
London, 1 Belgrave Square, Exhibition of Russian Art, 4 June-13 July 1935, p. 43, number CQ.
Sèvres, Musée céramique de Sèvres, Exposition de ceramiques russes anciennes, April-October 1929, cat. 273, p. 11.
London, 1 Belgrave Square, Exhibition of Russian Art, 4 June-13 July 1935, p. 43, number CQ.
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