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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YOUNG LADY WITH A BASKET OF BERRIES
Lot 322 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YOUNG LADY WITH A BASKET OF BERRIES

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820S

Closed24 November 2014

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GBP 4,375

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YOUNG LADY WITH A BASKET OF BERRIES
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820s
Realistically modelled and painted, the standing figure of a lady carrying a basket across her shoulder and a yellow cup in her hand, wearing an unglazed blue sarafan, white shirt and floral head scarf, on a naturalistic rectangular base, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark, also incised with a letter
7½ in. (19.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a nearly identical model of a young lady with a basket of berries, see E. Ivanova, Russkii Muzei, Farfor v Rossii XVIII-XIX vekov, St Petersburg, 2003, p. 107, listed p. 126, no. 208. For other similar models, also see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 61 and L. Nikiforova, Russian Porcelain in the Hermitage Collection, St. Petersburg, 1973, pl. 100.