LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE SCEPTRE AND RED ORB KPM MARKS, INCISED 369 IMPRESSED V.V (?) MARK

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A BERLIN (K.P.M.) LARGE FIGURE OF A MALABAR
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE SCEPTRE AND RED ORB KPM MARKS, INCISED 369 IMPRESSED V.V (?) MARK
After the original by Friedrich Elias Meyer, wearing a conical feathered hat, a yellow-lined purple robe tied with a red and gilt tasseled sash, striped under-garments with gilt flowerheads and puce shoes, a draw-string bag at his side, playing gilt cymbols and standing on a square plinth base with gilt panels (shallow chip to corner of base at back, tip of hat repaired)
16 in. (40.7 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

An 18th Century example of this model, which was first modelled in 1768, is in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, and is illustrated with his companion figure by Erich Köllmann and Margareta Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan (Munich, 1987), Vol. I, p. 41, fig. 16.

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