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

Female Turkish dancer

Figure
ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a female Turkish dancer in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. She stands on a mounded scroll base picked out in purple and blue on which are applied two red and purple flowers with leaves.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleFemale Turkish dancer (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure of a female Turkish dancer in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1760.
Physical description
Figure of a female Turkish dancer in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. She stands on a mounded scroll base picked out in purple and blue on which are applied two red and purple flowers with leaves.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.1cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
Honey, W. B. Old English Porcelain. London : Faber&Faber, 1948. 109 p., pl.44a.
Collection
Accession number
C.696-1925

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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