Lot Essay
For similar models of children, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, pp. 76-77, nos. 8-14.
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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART IV
THREE PORCELAIN FIGURES
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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THREE PORCELAIN FIGURES
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Realistically modelled and painted, one as a child-gardener carrying a vase with flowers and wearing a striped camisole, the other as a boy with a dog at the back, wearing a hat and brightly painted red waistcoat and trousers, the other as a sbiten seller, the figures of children marked under bases with impressed factory marks
4 in. (10.3 cm.) high and smaller
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Realistically modelled and painted, one as a child-gardener carrying a vase with flowers and wearing a striped camisole, the other as a boy with a dog at the back, wearing a hat and brightly painted red waistcoat and trousers, the other as a sbiten seller, the figures of children marked under bases with impressed factory marks
4 in. (10.3 cm.) high and smaller
Provenance
The figure of a child-gardener: with Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1973 (label under base).
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