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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A BOY-GARDENER
Lot 305 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART IV

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A BOY-GARDENER

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1770-1780S

Closed1 June 2015

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A BOY-GARDENER
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1770-1780s
Realistically modelled and painted as a boy, standing by a pitcher, wearing eighteenth-century costume, on a rectangular base, apparently unmarked
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high

With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1974 (label under base).

Specialist note

For a nearly identical model of a boy-gardener, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 75, no. 7. For other similar models, also see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 7, and L. Nikiforova, Russian Porcelain in the Hermitage Collection, St Petersburg, 1973, pl. 45.