A porcelain Figure of a Milk-maid
by the Gardner Factory, Moscow, 1810-1820
Realistically modelled, wearing an unglazed blue sarafan with gilt trimming and a puce sash over a glazed rubashka, with gilt cisel kokoshnik, carrying a simulated wood yoke suspending two buckets with detachable circular covers with gilt ball finials, on circular ground, marked under bases of buckets
9in. (25cm.) high