Police servant

Embossed work. On a rectangular lower pedestal with indicated natural base and flat sloping rim full plastic figure with grazed, somewhat crooked legs standing. Upper part of the body made of mother-of-pearl shell or snail shell. Presumably a police servant or a person with a military connection. The gaze is directed at a leaf with an attached seal which is held in the left hand, the mouth is open to speak. The right hand, pointing downwards, holds a large bell diagonally upwards.

Broad face (Bismarck type), hair above temples and back of the head, bushy eyebrows, moustache. Chako (shake cap) with a small bush and an eye-shade, which is decorated with a green glass stone in the middle. Knee-length uniform skirt with epaulettes, long gaiters, wide shoes, straps diagonally across the chest, long sabre on the top. Chako, epaulettes, sleeves, skirt laps, gaiters and plinth edge decorated with red, blue and green glass stones.

Backwards punched at the base: Fineness marks 13 and N, cf. Rosenberg vol. I, 318.