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CIRCA 1743, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE
Details
A Meissen figure of an Oriental
Circa 1743, blue crossed swords mark to back of base
Modelled by P. Reinicke, looking to his right, wearing a gilt-edged yellow-lined coat with indianische Blumen, a sabre in a black sheaf suspended from a black belt at his waist, standing before a tree-stump on a shaped circular mound base applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to upper half of figure, a left and a right finger lacking)
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high
Circa 1743, blue crossed swords mark to back of base
Modelled by P. Reinicke, looking to his right, wearing a gilt-edged yellow-lined coat with indianische Blumen, a sabre in a black sheaf suspended from a black belt at his waist, standing before a tree-stump on a shaped circular mound base applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to upper half of figure, a left and a right finger lacking)
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high
Literature
Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London 1987), p. 178.