A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BULGAR modelled by J.J. Kändler and P.E. Reinicke from the Nations of the Levant series, in a blue fur-lined turban, long white coat, purple tunic with a blue sash, yellow pantaloons and red shoes, standing turned to his right looking up and holding a stick over his right shoulder, on a mound base applied with coloured flowers and leaves (crack to base, restoration to left index finger and thumb and ends of stick, chips to hem of coat, flowers and leaves and to base), blue crossed swords mark to back of base, circa 1745

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BULGAR modelled by J.J. Kändler and P.E. Reinicke from the Nations of the Levant series, in a blue fur-lined turban, long white coat, purple tunic with a blue sash, yellow pantaloons and red shoes, standing turned to his right looking up and holding a stick over his right shoulder, on a mound base applied with coloured flowers and leaves (crack to base, restoration to left index finger and thumb and ends of stick, chips to hem of coat, flowers and leaves and to base), blue crossed swords mark to back of base, circa 1745
22.5cm. high

Lot Essay

This figure was inspired by an engraving by Jacques Le Hay, "Recueil des cent èstampes représentant les différentes nations du Lèvant", pl. 82, published in Paris in 1714 and commissioned by Charles de Ferriol, the French Ambassador to the Sublime Porte. For a a similar example and a copy of the engraving see Siegfried Ducret, "Vorbilder für Porzellanmalerein", Keramos 44/69, fig. 49 and fig. 51

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