Large English Bulldog Lomonosov porcelain figurine. It was made in the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg, Russia (former Soviet Union). 10 1/4 inch. long and 5 1/4 inch.tall. It has the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (LFZ) logo on the bottom. Brand new, excellent condition, export quality. The Dogger-type, as the Bulldog belongs to, is referred to as early as year 1121 b.c. in a chinese document. The document tells us that some Tibetan delegators brought a dog as a gift for the Chinese emperor. It was a Doggertype, in height 60 cm. at shoulder, and it was raised to hunt for people. At the Inca-excavations dog-sculls of the Doggertype was found, but they are considered mainly to be of Eastern origin. The dogger came to Greece from east about 500 b.c. and from there the Romans brought some of them with them to the middle Europe some centuries later. In Liebfrauen Church in Arnstadt in Germany you can see a Bulldog like dog on a tombstone from the year 1350. From 500-600 years back, a German dog called Bullenbeisser or Bra banter is known. It wasn't very big, but rather compact, very active and had longer legs than the English Bulldog, very much like the American Bulldog. It was used for bear-, wolf-, wild boar and deer hunting. The first time a Bulldog was named a Bulldog was in the year 1631. The dogs weighed about 45 kg and butchers used them in relation to their occupation to catch or bring down game. Bulldogs quickly became popular among gamblers, who placed bets on how long time it took one or several dogs to defeat a bull. The bullfights however became prohibited in England in the year 1835, but continued many years after that, secretly and in others countries. A German authority on dogs refers to the Bullenbeisser and the Bulldog as being the same breed in the year 1876. These dogs have a faint resemblance to the American Bulldog, where they from the last part of the nineteenth century has been bred towards the life-hampered dogs they are today. Unfortunately not the only breed marked in that direction, where their ability to survive exclusively is based on human care. Bulldog and Bullenbeisser are ancestors to the Boxer and is also considered to be ancestors to a couple of other breeds. Скульптура Английский бульдог, ЛФЗ. Скульптура изготовлена на Ломоносовскмо фарфоровом заводе. Для декорирования используется ручная подглазурная роспись. Автор формы - Павел Веселов, Автор росписи - Татьяна Гаврилова. Выпуск изделия начался в 1994 году. Высота - 15 см. Гаврилова Татьяна Евгеньевна (род. 1962) - мастер подглазурной росписи. Работает на ЛФЗ с 1982 года, училась у В. Жбанова и Т. Уваровой. Выполняет копии авторских произведений художников ИФЗ. Веселов Павел Павлович (1926 - 1994 г.г.) - скульптор-анималист. В 1952 году окончил ЛВХПУ (сейчас - СПбХПА им. Штиглица). С 1963 года работал на ЛФЗ, создавал образцы для тиражирования, участвовал в отечественных и международных выставках. Перечень его работ обширен и включает около 90 наименований. Почти все его работы выполнены в реалистичной манере. Работы находятся в Русском музее, Музее керамики и "Усадьба Кусково" и др.