This wonderful figurine was made at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in Leningrad, USSR by I. Efimov, sculptor and L.Black, porcelain painter in 1956.
8 1/2 inch. tall and 9 inch. long. It has a old blue factory monogram on the bottom. It is in excellent condition.
The Imperial Porcelain Factory (now known as the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory) was founded by Empress Elizabeth in 1744 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. "To serve native trade and native art"- this was how Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, formulated the aims of Russia's first "Porcelain" factory. Lomonosov Porcelain Factory was the first porcelain manufacturer in Russia to develop and commercially implement the alabaster porcelain technology. This fine delicate porcelain is a more brilliant white than the usual kind, and thin almost to the point of being translucent.
Until 1917, most of the porcelain products were manufactured to meet the needs of the Tsar's Court. The factory manufactured mainly service set and adornments for the Tsar's palaces; only a small amount of the artistic porcelain was sold to the people, and it was very expensive and accessible only to the rich. Since 1920, the factory has participated in international exhibitions in London, Berlin, Paris and Helsinki, where it received high accolades. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 the factory was awarded, its highest honor, the gold medal.
About 100 years after its foundation, the factory, which until then had belonged to the ruling house of Romanov, was proclaimed the Imperial Porcelain Factory (IFZ-Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod). After the October Revolution of 1917 it was nationalised and renamed the State Porcelain Works (GFZ Gos-sudarstvennyi FZ). In 1925, however, on the occasion of the 200th jubilee of the Russian Academy of Science, it was given the name of the academy's founder, Mikhail Lomonosov, a man well-versed in arts and science, and until recently it was called the Leningrad Lomonosov Porcelain Works (LFZ-Leningradski FZ imeni M.V. Lomonosova). Since 1993 it has been reorganized as the "Lomonosov Porcelain Factory", a private joint-stock company.
Russian porcelain owes its existence to notable Russian and foreign sculptors, painters, architects, scholars and artisans. During the Soviet era leading masters of fine and applied arts, expert technologists, workers and engineers continued the tradition. The best of Russian decorative porcelain from the Lomonosov factory today takes pride of place in the rich Petersburg collections, both in the Hermitage and the Russian Museum, as well as hotsell the Palace Museums of Pavlovsk, Petrodvorets and Tsarskoe Selo, the State Historical Museum in Moscow and the Ceramics Museum of Kuskovo, and thus are part of the rich fund of Russian and international art. There are many important foreign collectors who own such pieces. The Museum of the Petersburg Porcelain factory, established in 1844, contains some 20,000 exhibits.
For more than two and a half centuries the factory on the banks of the Neva has been in the forefront of high class porcelain production. Its products are of immense cultural value to the country and set the yardstick for artistic form and quality of execution.
Today the factory produces souvenirs and gifts, such as, tea and coffee sets. The items range from the animalistic genre and thematic sculpture, flowers and decorative vases of various sizes, porcelain decanters and pitchers. The products of the factory have been in continued demand at international exhibitions and fairs since their creation. Two hundred fifty years have passed - 250 years of unique, remarkable, difficult and highly interesting history for the first Russian porcelain factory.
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Product code: White Horse Lomonosov porcelain figurine Made hotsell in USSR 1960 (2021)