A porcelain figure of an odalisque, 'The beauty Palasha' Miklashevsky Factory, Volokitino, 1839-1861 the nude figure reclining on luxuriant bedcovers and wearing a turban, holding a fan in her left hand and fiddling with a string a long bead necklace, marked with dark red overglaze factory mark on underside length of pedestal: 23.5cm (9 1/4in). Footnotes: Similar examples are in the collections of the State Historical Museum, Moscow (inventory no. 7939) and the Kharkov Art Museum (inventory no. 2969); illustrated in Aelvira Sametskaya, Farfor zavoda A. M. Miklashevskogo, Moscow, 2010, vol. 2, p. 120, nos. 20-21. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com