These figures are modelled after prints from a folio of one hundred engravings drawn by G. Scotin and other artists, published by Le Hay of Paris in 1714 for M. de Ferriole, the French Ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Entitled Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes Nations du Levant tirées sur les tableaux paints d'après Nature en 1707-1708, par les ordres de M. Ferriole, this volume illustrated Turks, Negroes, Levantines, Bulgarians, Hungarians and others on the streets of Constantinople and formed the basis of many Meissen models.