A Capodimonte figure of a Hussar, circa 1750
Modelled by Giuseppe Gricci, wearing a black hat, a jacket with cape and sash, blue trousers and yellow boots, leaning on a shell-shaped basket, a bottle in his right hand, 14.5cm high, impressed fleur-de-lys mark (hat and right hand restored)
Another example of this figure with a slightly different basket and no hat is illustrated by Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806 (1986), p.208, pl. 152a.
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Modelled by Giuseppe Gricci, wearing a black hat, a jacket with cape and sash, blue trousers and yellow boots, leaning on a shell-shaped basket, a bottle in his right hand, 14.5cm high, impressed fleur-de-lys mark (hat and right hand restored)
Another example of this figure with a slightly different basket and no hat is illustrated by Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806 (1986), p.208, pl. 152a.
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