Lot 269
269
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YOUNG LADY WITH A BASKET OF BERRIES
PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART IV
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YOUNG LADY WITH A BASKET OF BERRIES

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820S

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YOUNG LADY WITH A BASKET OF BERRIES
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820s
Realistically modelled and painted, the standing figure of a lady carrying a basket across her shoulder, wearing an unglazed blue sarafan, white shirt and patterned head scarf, on a rectangular naturalistic gilt-lined base, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark, also incised with a letter
7½ in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1973 (label under base).

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Lot Essay

For a nearly identical model of a young lady with a basket of berries, see E. Ivanova, Russkii Muzei, Farfor v Rossii XVIII-XIX vekov, St Petersburg, 2003, p. 107, listed p. 126, no. 208. For other similar models, also see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 61 and L. Nikiforova, Russian Porcelain in the Hermitage Collection, St Petersburg, 1973, pl. 100.

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