PEASANT MOTHER FEEDING HER INFANT CHILD
Creator(s): Gardner Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: Breakfast Room
About this object
A partly glazed porcelain figurine of a mother dressed in white blouse, blue skirt and pink cap, holding a child clothed in a white chemise edged in red. Mother is seated on a trunk painted to simulate wood with a pot of porridge beside her, from which she is feeding her baby.
- Object name:
- PEASANT MOTHER FEEDING HER INFANT CHILD
- Made from:
- Porcelain
- Made in:
- Verbilki, Russia
- Date made:
- ca. 1900
- Size:
- 17.8 cm (7 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.62
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK underneath: Gardner impressed in Russian letters, 5, Gardner and imperial warrant in red; impressed St. George
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973