Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen représentant un hongrois, circa 1750...
Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen représentant un hongrois, circa 1750
A Meissen figure of a Hungarian, circa 1750
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke, wearing a fur-lined jacket with puce frogging, a white tunic with puce sash and gilt-edged puce cuffs, iron-red trousers and yellow boots and holding a fur-lined yellow hat in his left hand, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 22.2cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear edge of base (minor chips to applied leaves)
Based on pl. 76 in the Comte de Ferriol's 'Receuil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant. . . . ', Paris 1714, or the edition published in German by Christoph Weigel the Elder in Nuremberg in 1719.
Another example of this figure is in the Professor Klaus J. Thiemann Collection, Hetjens Museum (W. Beckmann, In Fürstlichen Diensten Komödianten, Sultane und Pagoden aus Meissener Porzellan (n.d.), p. 46.
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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen représentant un hongrois, circa 1750
A Meissen figure of a Hungarian, circa 1750
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke, wearing a fur-lined jacket with puce frogging, a white tunic with puce sash and gilt-edged puce cuffs, iron-red trousers and yellow boots and holding a fur-lined yellow hat in his left hand, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 22.2cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear edge of base (minor chips to applied leaves)
Based on pl. 76 in the Comte de Ferriol's 'Receuil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant. . . . ', Paris 1714, or the edition published in German by Christoph Weigel the Elder in Nuremberg in 1719.
Another example of this figure is in the Professor Klaus J. Thiemann Collection, Hetjens Museum (W. Beckmann, In Fürstlichen Diensten Komödianten, Sultane und Pagoden aus Meissener Porzellan (n.d.), p. 46.
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