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A Meissen figure of a Persian
A Meissen figure of a Persian

CIRCA 1750, INDISTINCT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE

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A Meissen figure of a Persian
Circa 1750, indistinct blue crossed swords mark to back of base
Modelled by J.J. Kndler and P. Reinicke, wearing an elaborate turban, a puce-lined white robe tied at the waist with a turquoise sash, a sabre suspended at his left hip, carrying a stick and standing before rockwork on a shaped circular mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (restoration to plume of turban, his left hand, sabre and lower end of stick, chipping to flowers and foliage)
8 in. (22.3 cm.) high

拍品專文

Cf. Rainer Rckert, op. cit. (1966), no. 938. Inspired from an engraving by Jacques Le Hay, 'Recueil des cent stampes reprsentant les differentes Nation du Lvant', pl. 90, published in Paris in 1714 and commissioned by Charles de Ferriol, the French ambassador to the sublime Porte, see Siegfried Ducret, 'Vorbilder fr Porzellanmalerei', Keramos 44/69, fig. 40.