AN ENGLISH ENAMELLED SALTGLAZED MODEL OF A MAN IN TURKISH COSTUME

CIRCA 1760

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AN ENGLISH ENAMELLED SALTGLAZED MODEL OF A MAN IN TURKISH COSTUME
Circa 1760
Modelled as an actor in the guise of a Turk standing with his right hand resting below the hilt of a dagger tucked in his sash, the other holding the edge of a yellow-lined blue cloak, the long green-lined pink tunic edged with manganese scrolls and delineated buttons above blue trousers and black boots, on a mottled manganese mound base
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Purchased from Stoner & Evans, London, February 1930

Lot Essay

See Chas. F. C. Luxmoore, English Saltglazed Earthenware, London, 1924, pl. 11 for a very similar example courtesy of Mr. T. Greg; and Bernard Rackham, Early Staffordshire Pottery, New York, fig. 49 for a similar Turk and companion figure, Victoria & Albert Museum, noted as after Meissen models; For creamware examples see The Price Glover Collection, Christie's London 14 June 1988, lot 110; anonymous sale, Christie's London 10 October 1988, lot 116; and Leslie Grigsby, English Pottery 1650-1800, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, pl. 300, no. 85

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