BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1770-80S

The present figure is part of a pair of a Harlequin and Harlequin dressed as Colombine made by the Gardner Porcelain Factory circa 1770–80. A similar figure of a harlequin is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession numbers 1982.60.157 and 1982.60.158 (a pair).
For another similar model, also see V. A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 7 (part).