A Meissen figure of a blackamoor Levantine lady mid 18th century

A Meissen figure of a blackamoor Levantine lady mid 18th century, modelled by Kändler and Reinicke, standing and wearing a tall headdress, holding a basket of lemons in her left hand, raised on a low pad base applied with flowers, some good restoration to her right hand, 14cm.

This figure, which was widely copied at Chelsea and Bow, was derived from plates in the Comte de Ferriol and Le Hay's 'Receuil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', published in Paris in 1714 with a smaller German edition published by Christoph Weigel at Nüremberg in 1719 and 1721. This figure was based on pl. 43 of Vol. II of the German edition or pl. 91 of the first edition of 1714.