Rare Antique Imperial Russian Moscow Gardner Porcelain Figure Lady with Secret

Risque Lady with a Secret. Porcelain factory was founded in 1754 (according to different references in 1761 or 1766) and was considered one of the best in.

Factory got the first place in. In the production and variety of figurines. It was later known as Kuznetsov's Porcelain Factory and nowadays as Verbilki factory.

Approximately in 1840s the factory started production of limited edition porcelain figurines'specially for military men' on the basis of French naughty and saucy pictures. The marvelous figurine is a very rare beautiful example of such risqué figurines. The splendid porcelain figurine of a beautiful young lady in a colourful dress and hat leaning over with her foot upon a stool has'a secret' at the backside of her dress. The lady's dress has a hinged section at the back which lifts up exposing her. This superb figurine has a gilt finish.

It measures approximately 8.5" x 6.5". The figurine is stamped and it seems with a. She is in remarkably good condition for her age with no chips, cracks, crazing or other signs of damage and no apparent wear to the gilding. A couple of years ago we went to Antiques Roadshow in. Everyone including the experts had a big smile when they were looking at this marvellous cheeky figurine.

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