A porcelain figure of a mother 'Cruel Fate'

Gardner Factory, Moscow, late 19th – early 20th century

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).

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.