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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A CITY MAILMAN
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A CITY MAILMAN

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820S

Fermé25 November 2013

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A CITY MAILMAN
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820s
Realistically modelled and painted as a city mailman, wearing a blue jacket and black hat and looking at a letter, on an octagonal base with gilt border, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark and impressed numeral possibly '6'
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Collection of G.F. Mazzolini, Milan, 1976 (label under base).

Note du spécialiste

For a similar model of a mailman, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 108, no. 18.