Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un soldat albanais, circa 1750

A Meissen figure of an Albanian soldier, circa 1750

Modelled by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke, holding a musket, wearing a yellow-edged blue hat, puce tunic, yellow sash with a dagger and hung with a sword, white breeches and yellow shoes, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 20.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base (rifle restuck in the middle and dagger sheath restuck)
Footnotes:
Based on pl. 78 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 musket barrel is restuck at his hip where the sheath of the dagger touches it: approx. 2.5cm of the middle of the musket is overpainted, and there is some associated restoration to the tip of the dagger, and some further overpainting to the sheath of the dagger. There is a small chip to the hammer of the musket. There is a narrow, 1cm long, flat chip to the front edge of his right sleeve (below his right elbow). There are typical small chips to the edges of the applied leaves and flower petals on the base, with some retouching to the green enamel along the broken edges of the leaves.

Otherwise in good condition.