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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Figure

ca. 1765 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a Turkish dancer in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. She stands with her right hand upheld and wears a long yellow cloak over a short flowered blue-fringed skirt, blue-striped flowered petticoat, red shoes and fur cap. Four-footed scrolled base picked out in blue, crimson and gold, and with applied flowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure of a Turkish dancer in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Bow Porcelain Factory, Bow, ca. 1765.
Physical description
Figure of a Turkish dancer in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. She stands with her right hand upheld and wears a long yellow cloak over a short flowered blue-fringed skirt, blue-striped flowered petticoat, red shoes and fur cap. Four-footed scrolled base picked out in blue, crimson and gold, and with applied flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
Two dots (In underglaze blue)
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Object history
The pair to C.665-1925
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Anton Gabszewicz, Made at New Canton (English Ceramic Circle, 2000), cat. 86
Collection
Accession number
C.664-1925

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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