Porcelain figurine of a man in a hat wearing a white costume with light-blue details belted with a brown belt. The man holds a black covered cup and looks back over his right shoulder while walking.
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Mezzetino

Franz Anton Bustelli (German, 1723-1763, b. Switzerland)

c. 1765

Medium
Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration
Classification
Ceramics
Dimensions
Figure: 20.4 × 12.7 × 8.6 cm (8 × 5 × 3 3/8 in.); Finger fragment: 1 × 0.4 cm (3/8 × 1/8 in.)
Culture
Germany
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
Credit line
Fund to be designated later. Purchased from A & R Ball. *William McCallin McKee Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

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