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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un soldat albanais, circa 1750A Meissen figure of an Albanian soldier, circa 1750 image 1
Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un soldat albanais, circa 1750A Meissen figure of an Albanian soldier, circa 1750 image 2 - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un soldat albanais, circa 1750

A Meissen figure of an Albanian soldier, circa 1750

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

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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un soldat albanais, circa 1750

A Meissen figure of an Albanian soldier, circa 1750


Modelled by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke, holding a musket, wearing a yellow-edged blue hat, puce tunic, yellow sash with a dagger and hung with a sword, white breeches and yellow shoes, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 20.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base (rifle restuck in the middle and dagger sheath restuck)

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Based on pl. 78 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. 45.

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