Nymphenburg figure of Asia from a set of Continents

An image of Figure. Asia from a set of Continents. Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory, Germany, Bavaria. Auliczek the Elder, Dominikus Jacob, modeller (Bohemian, 1734-1804). The square base has foliated corners and scrolled sides, and rises up into a tall pedestal of masonry and rocks painted in shades of pale green and grey. Attached to it on the viewer’s right is a C-scroll, and green stylized palm with three visible brown roots. A pale brown camel’s head tilted upwards projects from the base at the front, and one of its foreleg projects from a C-scroll to the left of it. Asia is represented by a thin and palid elderly man with short grey hair and moustache, and black eyes. He sits on the pedestal with his left leg over the viewer’s left edge, and his right crossed over it. His right hand rests on the calf of that leg, and he leans back on his left which is supported by the top of the palm tree. He is nude apart from a drape which is striped in pale and darker reddish-brown. Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in shades of green, flesh, pale brownish-red, brownish-red, purple, pale and dark brown, grey, and a little black. The underside is hollow and glazed apart from the outer edge, and there is a circular ventilation hold under the camel’s head. Height, whole, 18.4 cm, width, whole, 13.5 cm, circa 1765. Rococo. Production Note: Auliczek succeeded Bustelli as chief modeller at Nymphenburg in 1763, and remained there until 1797.

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Figure. Asia from a set of Continents. Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory, Germany, Bavaria. Auliczek the Elder, Dominikus Jacob, modeller (Bohemian, 1734-1804). The square base has foliated corners and scrolled sides, and rises up into a tall pedestal of masonry and rocks painted in shades of pale green and grey. Attached to it on the viewer’s right is a C-scroll, and green stylized palm with three visible brown roots. A pale brown camel’s head tilted upwards projects from the base at the front, and one of its foreleg projects from a C-scroll to the left of it. Asia is represented by a thin and palid elderly man with short grey hair and moustache, and black eyes. He sits on the pedestal with his left leg over the viewer’s left edge, and his right crossed over it. His right hand rests on the calf of that leg, and he leans back on his left which is supported by the top of the palm tree. He is nude apart from a drape which is striped in pale and darker reddish-brown. Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in shades of green, flesh, pale brownish-red, brownish-red, purple, pale and dark brown, grey, and a little black. The underside is hollow and glazed apart from the outer edge, and there is a circular ventilation hold under the camel’s head. Height, whole, 18.4 cm, width, whole, 13.5 cm, circa 1765. Rococo. Production Note: Auliczek succeeded Bustelli as chief modeller at Nymphenburg in 1763, and remained there until 1797.

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Accession Number: C.3180-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 772 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 454.12kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2010:11:07 05:06:15

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18th Century aged animal animals Asia bald Bohemian camels ceramics continents country drape drapery Early Rococo elderly enamel enamelled figure Fitz_AA German glazed hard-paste porcelain lead-glazed male man moulded moustache moustachioed Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory old old man on-glazed onglaze overglaze pedestal polychrome porcelain press moulded Rococo scrolled scrolls seated sitting studio ceramics

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