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For a similar model of a water carrier, see E. Ivanova, Russkii Muzei, Farfor v Rossii XVIII-XIX vekov, St Petersburg, 2003, p. 97, listed p. 106, no. 228.
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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A WATER CARRIER [VODONOSKA]
BY THE GARDNER FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1810-1820S
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A WATER CARRIER [VODONOSKA]
BY THE GARDNER FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1810-1820s
Realistically modelled and painted, wearing an unglazed blue sarafan over a glazed rubashka, with gilt ciselé kokoshnik, carrying a simulated wood yoke suspending two later wooden water barrels, on a circular naturalistic base, marked under base with underglaze blue mark
10 in. (26 cm.) high
BY THE GARDNER FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1810-1820s
Realistically modelled and painted, wearing an unglazed blue sarafan over a glazed rubashka, with gilt ciselé kokoshnik, carrying a simulated wood yoke suspending two later wooden water barrels, on a circular naturalistic base, marked under base with underglaze blue mark
10 in. (26 cm.) high
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