
Daria Khristova nee Chernenko
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Provenance
Acquired by a distinguished European businessman in the 1960s in Russia
Thence by descent to an important private collection, Europe
Loosely based on the lithographs from T. de Pauly's Ethnographic Description of the Peoples of Russia, 1861, the series 'People of Russia' was produced by the Gardner Factory starting from the 1870s and included 50 ethnic types. For a comparable model, see Gardner XVIII-XIX. Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 179, no. 9.