Porcelain Russian ballerina Karsavina Fire-bird LFZ

You are bidding on rare Russian(Soviet) porcelain figurine -depicting the great ballerina Tamara Karsavina in the costume of Firebird from ballet "Firebird", Paris 1910.

A costume under L.S.Bakst's sketches.

The author of model (1923) is sculptor Ivanov Dmitry Iosifovich

Hard paste porcelain, overglaze decoration
Technique : Gold painting
Brand : Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (LFZ)

This delightfully decorative porcelain figurine was produced in USSR in the middle of last century

Excellent collectable item. Very fine quality porcelain. Hand painted. Excellent condition, any cracks or restoration.

There are near 8.5 inches tall

Tamara Karsavina (Born in March 9,10, 1885, St. Petersburg, Russia--d. May 26, 1978, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Eng.), Anglo-Russian ballerina whose partnership with Vaslav Nijinsky in Mikhail Fokine's avant-garde ballets helped to revive interest in ballet in western Europe.
The daughter of a famous dancer, Platon Karsavin, she was educated at the Imperial Ballet School, St.Petersburg, under such teachers as Cecchetti, Christian Johansson, and Paul Gerdt, graduating in 1902. As ballerina at the Mariinsky Theatre she included in her repertoire Giselle and Odette-Odile in Swan Lake. Karsavina is best known as the leading ballerina of Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from its beginning in 1909 until 1922. Between 1909 and 1914 (paired with Nijinsky until 1913) she created the majority of famous roles in Fokine's Neoromantic repertoire, including Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Carnaval, Firebird, Petrushka and Thamar.

After marrying the English diplomat Henry James Bruce, Karsavina went to London (1918), where she helped found the Royal Academy of Dancing (1920), for which she organised the Teachers' Training Course and the Camargo Society (1930).

She came out of semiretirement in the early 1930s to revive some of her more famous roles for the Ballet Rambert and to create new ones for Frederick Ashton. She became a major influence in British ballet as vice-president of the Royal Academy of Dancing, and as advisor to the Royal Ballet stagings of Diaghilev ballets

Nice rare item for collector. Really remarkable present or a beautiful decor for your home

All pictures are actual, you will receive what you see

There is porcelain factory logo at the bottom (blue mark in Russian "LFZ")

A pretty & useful addition to your collection. Nice item and present for porcelain-lovers and collectors

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