Lot Essay
For comparable figures, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 159, no. 93 and p. 221, no. 8.
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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTION, PART II
TWO PORCELAIN FIGURES OF PLIUSHKIN AND A JEWISH MAN
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1870-1880s
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TWO PORCELAIN FIGURES OF PLIUSHKIN AND A JEWISH MAN
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1870-1880s
Realistically modelled as Pliushkin from N. Gogol's Dead Souls, wearing a long black cloak, and a Jewish man, holding a blue umbrella and wearing a long brown coat, both on naturalistic bases, both marked under bases with red printed factory marks, one also with impressed factory marks
9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm.) high and smaller
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1870-1880s
Realistically modelled as Pliushkin from N. Gogol's Dead Souls, wearing a long black cloak, and a Jewish man, holding a blue umbrella and wearing a long brown coat, both on naturalistic bases, both marked under bases with red printed factory marks, one also with impressed factory marks
9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm.) high and smaller
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