Persian man
Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in bluish-green, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, brown, and black enamels. The flat underside is unglazed and has a small central ventilation hole. The rounded low rocky base rises up at the back into a heap of rocks which support the figure. The top is decorated with applied leaves and two flowers: white, red and yellow, and yellow, white and green. The man stands on his left leg with his right extended behind him. He leans back from the waist and looks towards his left with his left hand held level with his abdomen, and his right arm bent and the hand grasping the handle of a brown walking stick. He has a black moustache, and on his head has a bluish-green turban, with a mauve fan-like projection on top, and a gold circlet around the front. He wears a white three-quarter-length coat, with a mauve shawl collar and lining, yellow cross bands and buttons, a red sash into which is tucked a dagger, white close-fitting trousers, and yellow shoes. A scimitar with a yellow hilt terminating in a bird's head, and a black scabbard is slung on two white straps on on his left side
History note: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone from Frau Elfriede Langeloh, March 1 1934, for £25
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 10 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-14) by Fisher, Lord and Lady
Model no. 1294, after pl. 90 engraved by G. Scotin in the Comte de Ferriol and Le Hay’s 'Receuil de cent estampes représentant difféerentes nations du Levant . . .', Paris, 1714 and 1715.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( bluish-green, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, brown, and black)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
( clear)
Base
Depth 8 cm
Press-moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in bluish-green, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, brown, and black enamels. The flat underside is unglazed and has a small central ventilation hole
Accession number: C.42-1954
Primary reference Number: 140292
Model number: 1294
Old object number: 403
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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