Lot 267
267
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A COACHMAN
PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART IV
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A COACHMAN

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820S

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A COACHMAN
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820s
Realistically modelled and painted, wearing a blue unglazed coat, black top hat, and black boots, standing with arms akimbo, on a rectangular naturalistic gilt-lined base, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark, also incised with a letter
7 5/8 in. (19.5 cm.) high
Provenance
With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1973 (label under base).

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Lot Essay

For a nearly identical model of a coachman, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 105, nos. 11, 12. For another similar model, also see Exhibition Catalogue, Die Tafelder Zaren und das Porzellan der Revolutionäre, Fragile, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, p. 106, no. 158.

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