A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A COSSACK AND A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A LAPLANDER FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1880-1890S

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A COSSACK AND A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A LAPLANDER FROM THE ‘PEOPLES OF RUSSIA’ SERIES

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1880-1890S

One, realistically modelled and painted as a standing Cossack wearing a papakha and traditional cloak and boots, on a circular base; the other, realistically modelled as a standing figure of a Laplander, carrying a fish and a net, wearing a traditional fur coat, both marked under base with red printed and impressed factory marks, also with impressed numerals105⁄8 in. (27 cm.) high and smaller