Antique Meissen Style German Porcelain Figurine Young Man

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This antique Meissen Style German bisque porcelain figurine depicts a finely sculpted 18th-century young man standing in a theatrical, aristocratic … Read more This antique Meissen Style German bisque porcelain figurine depicts a finely sculpted 18th-century young man standing in a theatrical, aristocratic pose. The piece measures 15 ½ inches tall, 6 ½ inches wide, and 5 ¼ inches deep.
The young man is fashioned with highly expressive features, including delicately painted blue eyes, rosy blushed cheeks, and sculpted brown curly hair escaping from beneath his large, cream-colored tricorn hat.

He stands elegantly with his left hand propped at his hip and his right hand raised to tilt his hat, which is accented with a molded bow at the crown. His attire consists of a voluminous, tan-gold jacket with sculpted drapery folds, a pale pink vest visible at the chest, and an wide, open collar embellished with hand-painted gold, blue, and white dotted trim.
He wears knee-breeches decorated with vertical pastel stripes of lavender, mint green, and pale yellow, all intricately dotted with raised gilt accents. His long white stockings are gathered at the knees with molded pink bows, finishing down at his feet in delicate gold-painted slipper-heels.

The figure leans against a stylized cream-colored tree trunk, which integrates seamlessly into the elaborate Rococo scrollwork base. The base features elegant, pierced archways at the front and heavily gilded, flowing scroll relief patterns along the bottom rim.

It is marked with an iodized red ink stamp with "MADE IN GERMANY" wrapping around a stylized, partially faded central manufacturer symbol.Below this stamped mark, the numbers 1656 and 8306 . See less