Lot 374
  • 374

A Russian Porcelain Figure of a Lady Removing Her Stocking, Gardner Porcelain Manufactory, 1870s-1880s

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • with iron red stamped factory mark, impressed St. George and illegible impressed mark
  • Porcelain
  • Height 8 1/2 in.
  • 21.6 cm
depicting a woman seated on a raspberry bench with simulated gilded fringe and wood legs removing her stocking as her dress slips down her arms, on a stepped rectangular base painted to resemble marble

Condition

overall good condition; with minor firing cracks to dress and bench
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Catalogue Note

For a comparable figure in the collection of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Art, see E. Sametskaia, "'Niushechki': ot ofitserskikh siuzhetov do obnazhennykh kolkhoznits," Antikvariat, predmety iskusstva i kollektsionirovaniia January-February 2003, no. 8, p. 100.