Beschreibung:

A Nymphenburg figure of a bowing Oriental Circa 1760, top of base with gilt-edged impressed Bavarian shield mark Modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli , bowing elegantly with his right hand to his forehead, his left arm concealed beneath his garments, his face looking down and his shaved head with a pig-tail of hair flopping forwards, wearing a sleeveless gilt-edged full-length pink robe over a white-lined blue robe with long pendant sleeves and tied at the waist with a striped orange sash, the gilt-edged cuff of an orange under-garment showing at his right wrist, his baggy yellow pantaloons tied above his pointed blue shoes, on a shaped flat base edged with sweeping scrolls enriched with gilt lines (four chips to edge of base, minute wear to gilding) 6 in. (15.1 cm.) high