BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1870-1880S
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A PORCELAIN GROUP OF THREE MEN
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1870-1880s
Realistically modelled as three standing men, one man raising a bottle, another playing a concertina, the third holding his coat, on a naturalistic oval base, marked under base with red printed and impressed factory marks, also further impressed and inscribed with numerals
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high
For another example of this model, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 150, no. 82, illustrated (as "Sunday").