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Turk
Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Earthenware, moulded 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. Or after a Persian, one of six Oriental figures modelled by Kaendler about 1750.The Meissen figure was also copied in Staffordshire white salt-glazed stoneware and in Longton Hall, Gilbody's Liverpool porcelain, and Philip Christian's Liverpool 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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