A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A GILAK MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA' SERIES
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A GILAK MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA' SERIES

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1870-1890s

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A GILAK MAN FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA' SERIES
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1870-1890s
Realistically modelled and painted, a standing figure of a Gilak man, wearing a traditional coat and hat, holding a smoking pipe in his left hand, inscribed in Russian 'Giliak' on the base, marked under base with impressed factory mark
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

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For a similar model, see O. Sosnina,Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 206, no. 51.

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