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Lot 155*

A porcelain salt cellar modelled as a pipe smoker
Gardner Factory, Moscow, late 19th - early 20th century

1 December 2021, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A porcelain salt cellar modelled as a pipe smoker

Gardner Factory, Moscow, late 19th - early 20th century
modelled as a standing bearded man, dressed in traditional 'rubakha' shirt, trousers, bast shoes, coat and a hat, smoking a pipe, his foot resting on the base of a table, on a rectangular base, marked under based with impressed and overglaze red factory marks and numbered '411'
height: 22.4cm (8 13/16in); width: 15cm (5 7/8in).

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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

For a comparable model, see Gardner XVIII-XIX. Porcelain Plastic Arts from Private Collections and Moscow Museums, Moscow, 2002, p. 132, no. 56.

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