PLIUSHKIN FROM NIKOLAI GOGOL'S "DEAD SOULS"

Made by: Gardner Factory

On view in: Passageway to Icon Room

About this object

A partly glazed porcelain figurine of the character Pliushkin from Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls (Mertvye dushi). He is dressed in a gray cap and scarf, a tattered black coat tied at the waist with a length of rope that hangs unevenly over a gray nightshirt-like undergarment. He appears to be wearing white stockings and black slippers. He is poorly shaved, further matching his ill-groomed appearance. The circular base is a mottled green and the figure is steadied in the rear with a tree stump.

Category:

ceramics

Object name:

PLIUSHKIN FROM NIKOLAI GOGOL'S "DEAD SOULS"

Made from:

Biscuit porcelain

Made in:

Moscow, Russia

Date made:

ca. 1860-1890

Size:

22.9 x 8.9 cm (9 x 3 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

25.72

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

MARK [SYMBOL: Stamp of Gardner factory in Moscow with Imperial Eagle above and St. George and the Dragon within the circular band.] Iron-red underglaze on the underside. For similar marks, see Chernyi, pp. 240-241, #15a. mark GARDNER Impressed in paste, underside, all Cyrillic caps. This mark appears on goods made between 1800 and 1870. model number? 25 3 Impressed in paste, underside The same number appears on the figure of Pliushkin in Popov (1980), fig. 219. It seems to be a model number.

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973

Featured in publication:

"Russian Porcelains: The Gardner, Iusupov, Batenin, Novyi, Popov, Kudinov, Sipiagin, Fomin, Safronov, Kiselev, Kornilov, Gulin, Khrapunov-Novyi, Sabanin, Miklashevskii, Guzhev, Ikonnikov, and Kuznetsov Factories"