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Lot 156*

A porcelain figure of a mother 'Cruel Fate'
Gardner Factory, Moscow, late 19th – early 20th century

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

£800 - £1,000

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A porcelain figure of a mother 'Cruel Fate'

Gardner Factory, Moscow, late 19th – early 20th century
modelled as a barefoot woman wearing a dress, coat and a kerchief, holding a wrapped baby and a bundle, on a naturalistic circular base, marked under base with an overglaze red factory mark
height: 23.9cm (9 7/16in).

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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. 152, no. 86.

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