Live Auction 10307Russian Art
TWO PORCELAIN FIGURES
Lot 270 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART IV

TWO PORCELAIN FIGURES

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed1 June 2015

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TWO PORCELAIN FIGURES
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, MID-19TH CENTURY
One realistically modelled and painted as a young lady carrying a basket across her shoulder and a cup in her hand, wearing an unglazed blue sarafan, another as a vendor, wearing blue coat, striped trousers, and black top hat, both on circular naturalistic bases, the figure of a lady marked under base with underglaze blue factory mark; the figure of a vendor marked with impressed factory marks, both further inscribed and impressed with numerals and letters
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high and smaller

Both with Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1973 and 1971 respectively (labels under bases).

Specialist note

For a similar 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.