a russian porcelain vase, circa 1830

of ovoid form, the front panel painted with a scene of two seated peasants in an interior, probably after David Teniers the Younger, the back with ornament in ciselé gilt, bright pink and green, the neck ornamented with floral patterns in ciselé, the handles in the form of winged female figures in matte glaze, on a square foot, probably by the Gardner Manufactory

some wear and loss of gilding
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The sophisticated combination of painted subject after Teniers with highly skilled gilding and decoration strongly suggest that this work was produced at the Gardner Factory near Moscow.  In the 1820s and 1830s, highly educated Russians, debating the merits of realism in both the fine arts and literature, coined the term "Teniersism" (tenerstvo) to describe depictions of everyday life, particularly that of the peasantry. The juxtaposition of a painting after, or inspired by, Teniers with the deliberately naive figures on the handles suggest an attempt by Gardner's artisans to appeal to a sophisticated audience. For a pair of similar vases, one being unmarked, by the Gardner Manufactory in the collection of the State Russian Museum, see Elena Ivanova, Porcelain in Russia, 18th-19th Centuries: The Gardner Factory, St. Petersburg, 2003, nos. 362-363, pp. 192-193.