Lot 173: Royal Dux Porcelain Flower Girl Figurine Model 186

A Royal Dux polychrome porcelain figurine of a flower girl, model number 186. The figure is depicted in a classical pose, wearing a wide-brimmed white sun hat and a white shawl with ruffled edges over a deep cobalt blue dress. She carries two grey baskets filled with multi-coloured applied porcelain flowers. The figure stands on an oval cream-glazed base featuring a gilt rim and an integral scroll-shaped support. The underside of the base bears an applied pink porcelain triangle mark for Royal Dux Bohemia with the central letter D, a blue underglaze backstamp reading Royal Dux Made in Czechoslovakia, and the incised model number 186 along with the digit 7. A hand-painted blue number 15 is also present.
Height: 25.5 cm.