A Bow figure of a Levantine lady c.1760

A Bow figure of a Levantine lady c.1760, after a Meissen original, standing and wearing a flowered coat over a striped outfit, her right hand raised to lift her pink headdress, raised on a footed base picked out in puce, blue and gilt, minor faults, 18.5cm.

This figure, which was widely copied at both Bow and Chelsea, 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.