Lot 367
367
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PANCAKE VENDOR
PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PANCAKE VENDOR

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820S

Details
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PANCAKE VENDOR
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820s
Realistically modelled and painted, the figure of a pancake vendor wearing a black hat, purple chequered smock, white apron and striped trousers, holding a pancake box in one hand, on rectangular gilt-lined base, apparently unmarked
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high
Provenance
With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1977.

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Lot Essay

For a similar model of a pancake vendor, see E. Ivanova, Russkii Muzei, Farfor v Rossii XVIII-XIX vekov, St Petersburg, 2003, pp. 102, listed p. 116, no. 214. For other similar models, see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 62, and L. Nikiforova, Russian Porcelain in the Hermitage Collection, St. Petersburg, 1973, pl. 99.

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