FRANCE OR EUROPE, 19TH CENTURY

The ceramicist took direct inspiration from a lithograph titled ‘un Mamlouk’ appearing in Louis Dupré's "Voyage â Athènes et â Constantinople" published in Paris between 1825 and 1837. This included forty lithographs documenting portraits, costumes and views of Greek archaeological sites. These Mamluks were a cavalry unit of the Napoleonic army taking part in key battles of the empire from the Egyptian campaign to Waterloo.

For another example of Jacob Petit's Pendule 'au mamelouk' see Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïence et Porcelaine de Paris XVIIIe - XIXe Siècles, Paris, 1995, p. 378, fig. 365.