Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un guerrier tartare de Crimée, circa 1750

A Meissen figure of a Crimean Tartar, circa 1750

Probably modelled by J.J. Kaendler und P. Reinicke holding a bow in his left hand, an arrow in the right and with a quiver of arrows on his back, wearing a fur-lined white hat, gilt-edged long puce tunic with a white sash and swords worn to his left, and yellow shoes, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 21cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear edge of base (shaft of arrow restored, minor chips to leaves)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Jhr. Alfred Boreel Collection, sold by Frederik Muller & Cie. 16-17 June 1908, lot 89;
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 25 February 1991, lot 102

Literature:
S. Ducret, Vorbilder für Porzellanmalereien, in Keramos 44 (1969), ill. 44

Based on pl. 84, Tartar de Crimée, 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.

The shaft of the arrow in his right hand is restored. There is some scattered minor wear to the gilding on the grip of his sword, and to the gilt tip of the arrow. There are some typical small chips to the applied leaves and flowers on the base; one of the blue flowers on one side is lacking a tiny flake of blue enamel.
Otherwise in good condition.