Wonderful figurine was made at the former Kornylov Porcelain factory in St-Petersburg, Russia, in 1950s
The Kornyloff factory, started in 1835 by two brothers of a merchant family in Petersburg, engaged skilled artists and crafts men from the Imperial, Gardner, and Popov factories. It quickly acquired a reputation for artistic excellence, and as early as 1839 won a gold medal at the Moscow ceramic exhibition. The owners spared no expense and trouble to bring their products to perfection, and for this purpose commissioned original drawings from leading artists of the day. The gorgeous colouring, rich gilding, and decorative finesse of Kornyloff products soon became well known, and they were sought after by collectors. In the last decades of the nineteenth century this factory started mass production of cheap porcelain wares for export. After the October Revolution of 1917 the factory was nationalised and renamed LZFI.
It is in excellent condition, no chips, no cracks.
4 inch. tall and 8 inch. long.
It has a factory monogram on the bottom.