On display
Image of Gallery in South Kensington

Figure

ca. 1753-1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Vauxhall Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
London (made)

Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and slightly gilded, of a man in Turkish dress; he wears a blue and white turban, a fur-lined pink cloak over a long flowered yellow robe and pink trousers; a dagger is stuck in his sash; he stands on a round base with applied flowers and foliage

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Figure
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded
Porcelain
Painted
Gilded
Brief description
Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and slightly gilded, of a man in Turkish dress standing on a round base, made by Vauxhall porcelain factory, London, ca. 1753-55
Physical description
Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and slightly gilded, of a man in Turkish dress; he wears a blue and white turban, a fur-lined pink cloak over a long flowered yellow robe and pink trousers; a dagger is stuck in his sash; he stands on a round base with applied flowers and foliage
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.1cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Copied from a Meissen figure modelled ca. 1750 by J.J. Kändler, based on an etching in Différentes Nations du Levantby M. de Ferroil, Paris, 1714
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Lee, London, for £1 10 shillings in June 1868.
Acquired as Bow porcelain. Subsequently reattributed to Longton Hall. Attributed to Vauxhall 2015. For versions of this figure in lead-glazed earthenware and enamelled white salt-glazed stoneware, see 858-1885 and C.64-1948
Production
Previously attributed to Longton Hall.
Subjects depicted
Man
Flowers
Bibliographic references
  • Manners, Errol. Meissen and England - the Baroque Influence. A paper read at the weekend seminar Fire and Form – The Baroque and its influence on English Ceramics, c. 1660-1760, 26th-27th March 2011, published English Ceramics Circle, 2013. Illustrated fig. 26. The Meissen prototype for this model is fig. 25 and examples in salt-glazed and Whieldon-type earthenwares, and Liverpool (Gilbody) porcelain are figs. 27-29.
  • For this model in Gilbody's Liverpool factory porcelain, see Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. 2011, pl. 7.72
Other number
Sch. I 438 - Schreiber number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
414:25-1885

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Record createdJanuary 14, 2009
Record URL
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