Lot 289
289
A RARE PORCELAIN GROUP OF STUDENTS DANCING THE CANCAN
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTION
A RARE PORCELAIN GROUP OF STUDENTS DANCING THE CANCAN

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1840S

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A RARE PORCELAIN GROUP OF STUDENTS DANCING THE CANCAN
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1840S
A dancing couple of students in ballroom costumes, on a triangular-shaped base, moulded with scrolls and half-figures at corners, marked under base with impressed factory marks, also with impressed numeral ‘29’
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a comparable group from the Kuskovo Museum, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 34, no. 22; also see N.V. Chernyi, Porcelain Factory of Verbilki, Moscow, 1970, p. 86, no. 79.

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