A Crimean Tartar
Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels
Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, orange, red, brown, grey, and black enamels and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed and has a circular ventilation hole below the figure. The square, low rocky base rises up slightly at the back. Is top is strewn with applied leaves and and flowers: two yellow and white and one orange and white. The bearded Tartar stands on his left foot with his right advanced. He looks forward and slightly upwards, holding his bow to his body with his left hand and holding an arrow by its point in his extended right hand. His head is covered by a yellow cap with brown netting over it and a white fur edging. He wears a white long-sleeved long flowing gown with a V neck which reveals a pale purplish-grey vest, a pink sash, pink stockings, nd yellow shoes. A long sword with a gilded white hilt and black scabbard hanges from his sash on a black strap. A brown quiver filled with arrows with red, yellow and pink flights, is held onto his back by an red strap passing over his left shoulder and under his right arm. His bow is grey with white binding, and the arrow in his right hand is grey with a white flight.
History note: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone from Willy Lissauer, Berlin on 18 August 1934, for £35
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-14) by Fisher, Lord and Lady
18th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
This figure, Meissen model, no. 1299, is one of a series known as The Levantines or Foreign Nationals. It was probably derived from pl. 34 in Christoph Weigel's 'Der Wahrest und neuest Abbildung des Türchisches Hofe Nüremberg', 1721, which is transposed from the original engraving, pl. 84 in the comte de Ferriol’s Receuil de Cent Estampes representant differentes Nations du Levant . . ., 1714, or 1715 edition
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
( clear)
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, orange, red, brown, grey, and black)
gold
Press-moulding : Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, orange, red, brown, purplish-grey, and black enamels and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed and has a circular ventilation hole below the figure.
Inscription present: cicular white paper label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.46-1954
Primary reference Number: 140303
Old object number: 412
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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