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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un bulgare, circa 1750A Meissen figure of a Bulgarian, circa 1750 image 1
Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un bulgare, circa 1750A Meissen figure of a Bulgarian, circa 1750 image 2 - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Lot 37

Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un bulgare, circa 1750

A Meissen figure of a Bulgarian, circa 1750

17 April 2024, 14:00 CEST
Paris, Avenue Hoche

€3,000 - €5,000

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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un bulgare, circa 1750

A Meissen figure of a Bulgarian, circa 1750


Modelled by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke, carrying a staff in his right hand, wearing a fur-lined blue, hat, long white coat, purple tunic with blue sash, yellow trousers and red shoes, 23cm high, faint crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear edge of base (two fingers on left hand restored, both ends of his stick restored)

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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 19 May 1993, lot 53

Based on pl. 82, Bulgare, 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. 44.

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