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The Nymphenburg factory's most famous modeller, Bustelli, has portrayed him in the traditional manner as a thin, shifty and mean-looking old man, his hands holding firmly on to his moneybags hidden under his cloak. His strange clothes would have been considered ridiculously old-fashioned, even then, but they also tell us about his status, red being the most expensive dye at the time and the preserve of only the richest in society.\r\n\r\nThis figure is a very fine example of its kind.  In addition to usual mark of the Nymphenburg factory, the Bavarian shield prominently edged with gilding on the scroll base, it bears the impressed mark of Bustelli himself on the underside.  This rare mark tells us that this particular model was finished by the great man himself and approved by him as the version for other mould finishers (or 'repairers' as they are known) to follow.","physicalDescription":"Figure of an elderly bearded man in hard-paste porcelain, his head turned over his right shoulder, his mouth open as if speaking, his hands clasped behind under his flowing black cloak, his left leg thrust forward to make a bow, his long waistcoat, breeches and hose all deep red, also wearing pointed yellow shoes or slippers, a pointed black hat, and a short sword hanging down over his left thigh, on a flat white scroll-edged base, the rims of the base and the sword scabbard gilded.  A minute firing flaw on the upper surface of the white base has been disguised by a small green sprig.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Bustelli, Franz Anton","id":"A6743"},"association":{"text":"modeller","id":"AAT25417"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Nymphenburg","id":"C7619"},"association":{"text":"manufacturers","id":"AAT25230"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"hard paste porcelain","id":"AAT10663"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting","id":"x30598"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Hard-paste porcelain, painted and gilded","categories":[{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"},{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[{"text":"Rococo","id":"AAT21155"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2008BT0084","2017JX3537"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"145 (VA)","id":"THES49865"},"free":"","case":"11","shelf":"2","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Figure","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Nymphenburg","id":"x32542"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1760","earliest":"1755-01-01","latest":"1764-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased with the assistance of the Murray Bequest","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'FB2'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Impressed on the base, the FB mark indicates that this was a model finished by Franz Anton Bustelli himself and approved by him as a model for repairers to follow.  According to Alfred Ziffer, the impressed '2' denotes the best type of paste for making figures."},{"content":"shield of Bavaria 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":"impressed on the upper surface of the scrolling base and unusually, edged with a gilded line"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Figure of an Italian comedy character, Pantaloon, modelled in hard-paste porcelain by Franz Anton Bustelli, made at the Nymphenburg porcelain factory, Nymphenburg, Bavaria, ca. 1760.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Jansen, Reinhard, ed.  <i><u>Commedia Dell'Arte, Fest der Komödianten, Keramische Kostbarkeiten aus den Museen der Welt</i></u> with essays by Ulrich Pietsch, Meredith Chilton, Reinhard Jansen, Samuel Wittwer etc. Catalogue of the exhibition held at Schloss Charlottenburg and the Bröhan Museum, 2001, together with separate summary in English and booklet of source prints.  Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2001, 194 p., no. 200."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ziffer, Alfred. <u>Nymphenburger Porezellan</u> Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 1997.  66 p., no. 103. Catalogue of the Bäuml Collection exhibited at the Nymphenburg Palace, Munich"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Eikelmann, Renate (ed).  <i><u>Bustelli, Nymphenburger Porzellanfiguren des Rokoko</i></u> Includes essays by Katharina Hantschmann, Alfred Ziffer, Utta Bach, Peter Volk etc.  Catalogue of exhibition held at the Bayerishces Nationalmuseum, Munich, November 2004- March 2005. 280 p., 471 p., no. 139"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Chilton, Meredith. <u>Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture</u> with an essay by Domenico Pietropaolo.  New Haven and London: George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art and Yale University Press, 2001. pp. 50-52.  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