The figurine has the motif of the Russian fairy tale - "Geese-swans" A man lived with his wife in a village. They had a daughter and a son who was still quite small. One day the mother said: inch. Daughter, we are going to work now. Look after your little brother. Don't leave the yard and if you are a good girl we will buy you a shawl. inch. The mother and father went off and soon the girl forgot what she had been told. She sat her little brother down on the grass in the yard, and went out into the street where she got so involved in a game that she wandered farther and farther from home. Geese flew in, grabbed the boy and carried away on the wings. . Like all good stories this fairy tale has a happy ending... Wonderful figurine was made at the former Kornyloff Porcelain Factory in St-Petersburg, Russia. 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 crack. 13 x 9 cm (4 3/4" x 3 1/2")