A collection of decorative ceramic and bisque porcelain figures and figural flasks, likely of Eastern European? / Soviet? origin. The group features a pair of cold-painted ceramic flasks depicting musicians in traditional Caucasian dress, including black chokha coats with gazyry cartridge loops and grey papakha wool hats, each playing a balalaika. A central ceramic flask depicts a moustachioed man in a blue tunic, red neckerchief, and striped trousers leaning on a cane, with a wooden post form neck retaining a cork stopper. The collection further includes a taller bisque porcelain figure of a youth in 18th-century style attire leaning against a tree stump, and a pair of painted ceramic souvenir figures depicting a young girl in a green pinafore and a young boy in a tan jacket. A pale, translucent carved stone? / resin? figure of an elderly bearded man in long robes is also present. The musician flasks retain their respective black and white screw-caps. No legible marks or signatures are present on the visible surfaces.
Height: Approximately 30.5 cm.
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