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A PAIR OF RARE PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS
Lot 354

A PAIR OF RARE PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed28 November 2016

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A PAIR OF RARE PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Modelled as a boy and a girl holding yellow cornucopias shaped as candle holders, on baluster shaped pedestals, painted in shades of pink, grey and green, apparently unmarked
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high and smaller

Specialist note

For a comparable pair from the Kuskovo Museum, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 247, nos. 1-2; also see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 30.