Wearing a peaked cap, a ruff and pantaloons, his jacket with large spherical buttons and a lobed hem, his shoes with rosettes, standing poised on one foot with his left arm outstretched, stroking his beard with his right hand, leaning against a tree-stump on a shaped circular rocky grassy mound base applied with flowers and foliage
5¹⁄₂ in. (14.1 cm.) high

The Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, Sotheby's, London, 15 April 1961, lot 376 (£400 to Chester).
The Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27 June 2005, lot 20.

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Probably modeled by Georg Ludwig Bartolomäe, this figure is a variant on the Pflueger Collection example, see Hugo Morley-Fletcher, 'Early European Porcelain & Faience as Collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger' Catalogue, London, 1993, vol. I, p. 222. The present lot is mentioned by Christoph Fritzsche et al, 'Hochfürstlich Fuldische Porzellainmanufaktur 1764-1789' Vonderau-Museum, Fulda and Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf Exhibition Catalogue, Fulda, 1994, p. 41.