Allegory of Asia: a porcelain figure, Popov porcelain factory, Gorbunovo, mid 19th century

Property from an Important Private Collection, England

Allegory of Asia: a porcelain figure, Popov porcelain factory, Gorbunovo, mid 19th century

realistically modeled, depicted as a woman dressed in varicoloured, gilt, patterned costume, with a gilt and pearl helmet with a crescent, seated on a recumbent camel beside a palm tree, holding a gilt scepter with one hand and a porcelain jug with the other, on an oval shaped naturalistic base, with blue factory mark on the underside  

height 15.2 cm, 6in.