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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YOUNG LADY WITH A BASKET OF MUSHROOMS
Lot 268 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART IV

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

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820S

Closed1 June 2015

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A YOUNG LADY WITH A BASKET OF MUSHROOMS
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1820s
Realistically modelled and painted, standing and carrying a basket on her left hand, wearing a blue sarafan, white shirt and green kokoshnik, on a circular naturalistic base, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark, also inscribed in red with 'N3'
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) high

With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1977 (label under base).

Specialist note

For similar models of a young lady carrying a basket of mushrooms or berries, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 24, nos. 7-9.