Lot Essay
For a nearly identical model of a boy-gardener, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 75, no. 7. For other similar models, also see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 7, and L. Nikiforova, Russian Porcelain in the Hermitage Collection, St Petersburg, 1973, pl. 45.