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Girl in Turkish Costume
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Figure. Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in a little blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, red, mauve, purple, and brown enamels, and gilt. The low mound base is closed and concave underneath with a ventilation hole at the back, and greenish-blue glaze. The top is decorated on the proper right with an applied flower and two leaves, and at centre front with a flower and three leaves. The girl stands with her right arm bent and the hand raised holding a leaf. Her left hand holds her coat. She wears a red crested cap, a gold necklet, a high-necked white chemise, a long mauve coat over a purple and gold bodice, a yellow skirt decorated with red foliage and mauve flowers in green-edged reserves, and a purple and turquoise striped petticoat, and purple shoes.
History note: Sotheby's, 5 March, 1926, lot 46; purchased for Dr Glaisher by Mr Hunt for £5.10.0.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Decoration composed of enamels ( a little blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, red, mauve, purple, and brown) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in a little blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, red, mauve, purple, and brown enamels, and gilt
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.3056A-1928
Primary reference Number: 41681
Old object number: 4839B
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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