Lot Essay
For a similar model of a pilgrim, see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 61.
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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PILGRIM
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1818-1820
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PILGRIM
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1818-1820
Realistically modelled and painted, a standing figure of a man, wearing an unglazed blue cloak, with a black hat, bast shoes and a cloth attached to his pink belt, and a black sack on his back, on a rectangular naturalistic base, marked under base with underglaze blue mark, impressed with a numeral ‘6’
7 ½ in. (18.5 cm.) high
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1818-1820
Realistically modelled and painted, a standing figure of a man, wearing an unglazed blue cloak, with a black hat, bast shoes and a cloth attached to his pink belt, and a black sack on his back, on a rectangular naturalistic base, marked under base with underglaze blue mark, impressed with a numeral ‘6’
7 ½ in. (18.5 cm.) high
Provenance
With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1975.
Brought to you by
Aleksandra Babenko