TWO PORCELAIN FIGURES OF LAPLANDERS FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
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TWO PORCELAIN FIGURES OF LAPLANDERS FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1880-1890s

Closed4 June 2018

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TWO PORCELAIN FIGURES OF LAPLANDERS FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1880-1890s
Realistically modelled and painted, a standing figure of a man, carrying a fish and a net, and a woman with child, wearing a traditional fur coat, both marked under bases with red printed and impressed factory marks, also inscribed and impressed with numerals

10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high and smaller

Specialist note

For a similar model, see O. Sosnina, Gardner: Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 203, nos. 43-44.