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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A WATER CARRIER [VODONOSKA]
Lot 319 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A WATER CARRIER [VODONOSKA]

BY THE GARDNER FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1810-1820S

Closed24 November 2014

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GBP 11,875

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A WATER CARRIER [VODONOSKA]
BY THE GARDNER FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1810-1820s
Realistically modelled and painted, wearing an unglazed blue sarafan over a glazed rubashka, with gilt ciselé kokoshnik, carrying a simulated wood yoke suspending two later wooden water barrels, on a circular naturalistic base, marked under base with underglaze blue mark
10 in. (26 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar model of a water carrier, see E. Ivanova, Russkii Muzei, Farfor v Rossii XVIII-XIX vekov, St Petersburg, 2003, p. 97, listed p. 106, no. 228.