Lot Essay
For a similar model of a shoe seller, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, pp. 106, no. 14.
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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III
TWO PORCELAIN FIGURES OF A SHOE SELLER AND ANOTHER STREET VENDOR
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 19TH CENTURY
Details
TWO PORCELAIN FIGURES OF A SHOE SELLER AND ANOTHER STREET VENDOR
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 19TH CENTURY
Realistically modelled as street vendors, both wearing unglazed blue coats and blue striped trousers, black boots and green hats, one carrying a pair of black shoes, another carrying a vessel and a sack on his back, both on circular bases moulded with gilt scrolls, both marked under bases with impressed factory marks and numerals ‘8’ and ‘4’; the figure of a shoe vendor also with a blue underglaze factory mark; the other figure with an inscribed numeral ‘10’
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 19TH CENTURY
Realistically modelled as street vendors, both wearing unglazed blue coats and blue striped trousers, black boots and green hats, one carrying a pair of black shoes, another carrying a vessel and a sack on his back, both on circular bases moulded with gilt scrolls, both marked under bases with impressed factory marks and numerals ‘8’ and ‘4’; the figure of a shoe vendor also with a blue underglaze factory mark; the other figure with an inscribed numeral ‘10’
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high
Provenance
With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1973 and 1974, respectively.
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