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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YARD KEEPER
Lot 296 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART II

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YARD KEEPER

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1820-1830S

Closed2 June 2014

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YARD KEEPER
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1820-1830s
Realistically modelled and painted as a yard keeper, wearing a white apron, blue and white printed shirt and holding a broom, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark
6½ in. (16.4 cm.) high

With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1974 (label under base).

Specialist note

For similar models of a yard keeper, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 107, no. 17.