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Despite his youth he had already been commissioned by the most important and influential local potentate, the Archbishop Elector of Mainz, Emmerich Joseph, to make two stone sculptures.  Presumably on the strength of these works he was given his important appointment at the factory.\r\n\r\nThe first recorded model by Melchior for the factory was a complex chinoiserie group depicting called 'The Chinese Emperor' seated under a canopy with three young attendants. This group, completed by 1766, was accompanied by a series of individual figures of Chinese children and musicians, among which is this figure playing the cymbals.  The lively dancing pose of the musician has been cleverly captured and the figure has been decorated with the subtle enamel colours,  making it one of Melchior's very successful early models.","physicalDescription":"Figure of a dancing musician, modelled as a tall, slender Chinese man playing the cymbals, his hair in a ponytail, wearing a tunic, pale grey coat with a lemon yellow sash and leggings to match, his orange boots with pointed toes, set on a square base with canted corners in olive green, his cymbals and the borders of his costume gilded.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Melchior, Johann Peter","id":"A25569"},"association":{"text":"modeller","id":"AAT25417"},"note":"probably"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Höchst porcelain factory","id":"A25286"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"hard paste porcelain","id":"AAT10663"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Hard-paste porcelain and painted in enamels","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"}],"styles":[{"text":"Chinoiserie","id":"AAT21167"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2008BT2284","2008BT2283","2017KJ7153"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"145 (VA)","id":"THES49865"},"free":"","case":"41","shelf":"3","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Figure","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Höchst","id":"x41056"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1766-1770","earliest":"1761-01-01","latest":"1770-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Miss Florence Augusta Beare in memory of Arthur Doveton Clarke","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"wheel mark","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"painted in blue under base"},{"content":"'mr/17'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"incised under base"}],"objectHistory":"This figure is one of a set of Chinoiserie subjects by the same modeller probably intended for a dessert table decoration.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Röder, Kurt and Oppenheim, Michel, <u>Höchster Porzellan</u> Mainz, 1930, no. 296, p. 59 and table 54a . Catalogue of the Millenium exhibition of the city of Mainz, 1925."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Reber, Dr. Horst.  <i><u>Höchster Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus  Privatbesitz</i></u>, 102 p. for a white version of this figure. Frankfurt-am-Main: Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, 1984.  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