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NAO Catalog - Gres Figurines, p. 1

(See also Nativity & Christmas Themes.)

Gres models of NAO items are very difficult to find on the secondary market. They were expensive to make and, consequently, expensive to buy. Because this routinely placed them beyond what were considered the ideal "price points" for NAO retail sales; with prices rivaling those for items in the regular Lladró collection, the company ceased producing Gres figurines in the NAO brand, retiring the last of them in 2000.

Several Gres items were also made, under the same catalog number, in the regular porcelain formula, and those items are signified, in their respective theme sections in the catalog, as having been made in both. The only items included in this Gres section of the catalog will be those items produced in Gres only or those produced as regular porcelain models but with an entirely different catalog number.

Generally speaking, collectors will find the dimensions of Gres figurines to be larger than those of models made in regular porcelain. One of the particular advantages of the Gres formula is that it allows for the production of figurines on a larger scale than is generally possible with regular porcelain