Three porcelain figurines, Gardner Manufactory and others, late 18th to mid 19th century

 of a young man playing a flute, a boxer and a tea-vendor, the tea-vendor marked with a blue G, the flute player with impressed manufactory marks and no.2, the boxer apparantly unmarked

Tea vendor - the coat appears to have been repainted, possible restoration to the right hand and teapot handle and rubbing to the gilding. There is a noted firing crack around the the right arm of the boxer. Young boy playing a flute: the paint had rubbed on the boy's blue jacket. The gilding on the base has worn consistent with age.
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For a similar models of a tea-vendor and boy playing a flute please see Sotheby's London, The Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Collection, 18th and 19th September 2007, lots 283, 285.