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

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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

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Lot Essay

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.

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