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A figure of Abd-ul-Medjid, Sultan of Turkey
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A figure of Abd-ul-Medjid, Sultan of Turkey
wearing fez, long military coat and trousers, modelled standing with his right hand resting on his hip, holding a sabre in his left hand, on square gilt-titled base, circa 1851 (overpainting to black enamels and flaking to fez) -- 30.5cm. high See illustration
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Lot Essay
P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. C558, fig. 131.