A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PERSIAN modelled by J.J. Kändler and P. Reinicke, in gilt-flowered white turban, puce-lined white tunic with purple frogging and gilt buttons, a gilt hilted dagger stuck into his turquoise sash and with yellow shoes, standing before a short wall, a pick-axe in one hand and a sword at his side, on a pad base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (restoration to plume of turban, left hand, pick-axe, scabbard and hilt of sword, chips to flowers and foliage), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1748

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PERSIAN modelled by J.J. Kändler and P. Reinicke, in gilt-flowered white turban, puce-lined white tunic with purple frogging and gilt buttons, a gilt hilted dagger stuck into his turquoise sash and with yellow shoes, standing before a short wall, a pick-axe in one hand and a sword at his side, on a pad base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (restoration to plume of turban, left hand, pick-axe, scabbard and hilt of sword, chips to flowers and foliage), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1748
22.5cm. high

Lot Essay

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

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