Royal Doulton Figurine Santa's World Travels HN5598 Out for a Duck Pretty Ladies from the late

Pretty Ladies from the late 1990s represent later-period Royal Doulton production before the company's significant manufacturing changes in the 2000s

Royal Crown Derby's Olde Avesbury pattern graces this elegant footed comport

The costume is richly painted in the burgundy

" The piece belongs to Royal Doulton's domestic activity figurines

Royal Doulton Figurine Santa's World Travels HN5598 Out for a Duck Pretty Ladies from the lateSanta's World Travels (HN5598) was designed by Diane Kolar and issued in 2012 as part of Royal Doulton's Holiday Traditions Collection, in a worldwide limited edition of 3,500 hand numbered pieces. Standing approximately 6. 25 inches tall, it is a figure group rather than a single standing portrait a substantially more complex and expensive undertaking in both modelling and decoration. The composition is generously detailed: Santa seated in his chair,