A Bulgarian
Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh, pink, purple, red, pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed. The rounded low rocky base is decorated round the edge with applied leaves and flowers: white, purple and yellow: white, blue and yellow: white and yellow with purple centre, white and purple, and white, blue and yellow. The Bulgarian stands on his right leg and has his left extended behind him. He leans back from the waist and looks towards his right holding in his right hand a walking stick which rests on his right shoulder. His left arm is bent and extended to his left. He has a grey beard and red lips. He wears a red hat with a white and grey fur edging, a open-necked pink tunic decorated with purple and gold foliage, a white sash decorated with diagonal pairs of gold stripes alternating with flowerheads, a long yellow coat with a grey lining, blue breeches, white stockings and lack shoes with purple lacing on top.
History note: Sotheby, London, 23 October 1951 for £150; 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 11.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-14) by Fisher, Lord and Lady
18th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Model no. 1293, after pl. 82 by engraved by J. de Franssières in the Comte de Ferriol's 'Receuil de cent estampes réprésentant différentes nations du Levant', Paris, 1714 or 1715
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh, pink, purple, red, pale brown, grey, and black)
gold
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
Base
Depth 8.5 cm
Inscription present: blurred
Accession number: C.49-1954
Primary reference Number: 140307
Old object number: 421
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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