Lladro 1452 Porcelain Figurine Elegant Couple with Dog Spain Signed 1984 For Sale

A Lladro group: a woman in a long fur-trimmed coat holding a small dog against her shoulder, a man beside her in a bowler hat with a cane. Marked LLADRO HAND MADE IN SPAIN with the 1984 copyright, and incised 1452 with the decorator's mark.The pale grey and blue palette is the reason people know a Lladro from across a room, and it is a deliberate technical choice rather than a taste. Most European porcelain figures are decorated with overglaze enamels fired at low temperature, which gives strong colour but a surface that sits on top of the glaze. Lladro fires its colour at high temperature in a single pass, which restricts the palette severely and is why everything comes out in those soft washed blues and greys. The limitation is the look.Look at the elongation. Heads slightly small, necks slightly long, hands slightly tapered. Lladro modellers worked from a house convention borrowed from Mannerist sculpture, and it is what makes the figures read as elegant rather than merely accurate.The incised number on the base is the model number, and the letters beside it identify the decorator who painted it. Somebody in Tavernes Blanques was paid for this piece and the factory recorded who.Condition: BROKEN ARM AND 1 BROKEN FINGER