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A PORCELAIN DOUBLE SALT
Lot 286 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART IV

A PORCELAIN DOUBLE SALT

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1790-1800S

Closed1 June 2015

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GBP 2,500

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A PORCELAIN DOUBLE SALT
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1790-1800s
Realistically modelled and painted as a maiden sitting on a stone between two baskets formed as salts, wearing a brown shirt, a floral skirt and a headscarf, on an oval base moulded with scrolls, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark, also incised with numeral ‘6’
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) wide

Specialist note

For a nearly identical model, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 252, no. 11. For another similar model, also see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 28.