A LARGE PORCELAIN GROUP ‘FAREWELL’
Lot 292 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTION, PART II

A LARGE PORCELAIN GROUP ‘FAREWELL’

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1870-1880S

Closed5 June 2017

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GBP 3,250

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A LARGE PORCELAIN GROUP ‘FAREWELL’
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1870-1880S
After an illustration by U. Shubeler for N. Gogol’s Taras Bulba, realistically modelled as young Andrew bidding farewell to a Polish noble woman, on an oval base painted to resemble stone, marked under base with red printed and impressed factory marks, also with impressed numeral '281’

15¾ in. (40 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a comparable figure, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 219, no. 2.