Oval, adorned with plastic flower tendrils, base. On a horse in the gentleman's seat, a Tsarina rides in the uniform of a high-ranking officer of the Preobrazhensky Guards, with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Andrew. At her side, a page with a turban. Polychrome painting with rich, partly etched gold decoration. Possibly by Johann Joachim Kaendler. Model number 1059. Restored; sword mark. Height 23.5 cm. Originally made for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of Russia, based on a painting by Georg Christoph Grooth (1716-1749), which Kaendler only used as a copy for this purpose and sent to Meissen. See Pietzsch, Catalogue Meissen for the Tsars, number. See Berling, Festschrift, Plate 12, number 5. An equestrian porcelain figure of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of Russia on horseback. Restored. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1924-1934.