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Turk
Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Earthenware decorated with lead-glazes coloured green, yellow, manganese-brown, and black
History note: Dr Burn, Cambridge; Stanley Woolston, Cambridge, from whom bought on 17 July 1920 for £30 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
1765
CE
In the eighteenth century Europeans were intrigued by the customs and costumes of people living in the Middle East and Far East. Their interest created a market for pottery and porcelain figures of Turks and Chinese which were used for table decoration. This earthenware Turk was probably copied from an English porcelain figure after a Meissen model by J.J. Kaendler based on an etching in the comte de Ferriol's 'Receuil de cent estampes représentant differentes Nations du Levant', Paris, 1714. The Meissen figure was also copied in Staffordshire white salt-glazed stoneware and in Longton Hall porcelain.
Visible Surfaces
composed of
lead-glaze
Decoration
dark cream Earthenware
Moulding
: Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded and decorated with lead-glaze coloure green, yellow, manganese-brown, and black
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.841-1928
Primary reference Number: 76209
Old object number: 3858
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: PD.128-2015
Accession Number: M.1-1946
Accession Number: CM.GC.64-R
Accession Number: CM.BI.1974-R
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