FRUIT PEDDLER
Creator(s): Gardner Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)
On view in: Passageway to Icon Room
About this object
An unglazed porcelain figurine of a brown bearded man with a brown cap wearing a mustard yellow coat and grey apron. He kneels with a board covered with a white napkin and is offering pink fruit. Rectangular plinth is mottled grey.
- Object name:
- FRUIT PEDDLER
- Made from:
- Biscuit
- Made in:
- Verbilki, Russia
- Date made:
- 1830-1850
- Size:
- 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.83
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK underneath: impressed stamp with Cyrillic Gardner, St. George and the Dragon, number 3
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973