GARDNER’S PORCELAIN SCULPTURAL GROUP ‘GEORGIANS’ SERIES ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ Moscow, The Gardner porcelain factory, circa 1870-1890

Red mark of the Gardner Porcelain Factory (on the underside)Biscuit, polychrome painting H. 25 cm Condition : a few restorations The series of figures ‘Peoples of Russia’ was produced at the Gardner factory from the 1870s and included about 50 figures. They were made from colour lithographs of the book ‘Ethnographic Description of the Peoples of Russia’ written by T. de Pauli in French. These statuettes were a kind of plastic variations of the graphic originals.