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Lot 83

A Meissen pair of Turkish musicians, circa 1745

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Meissen pair of Turkish musicians, circa 1745

Modelled by Peter Reinicke and J.F. Eberlein, the man holding a guitar under his arm and wearing a turban, a white jacket over a pink tunic with a gilt pattern and turquoise trousers, the lady playing a lute and wearing a headdress and white tunic over a blue shirt and trousers, the bases applied with leaves and flowers, 17.5cm high, incised P to male figure (the male figure restored, minor restoration to female figure) (2)

Footnotes

The figure of the Turk is based upon the engraving of 'Le Turc Amoureux' by Georg Friedrich Schmidt (1712-75), after a painting of around 1730 by Nicholas Lancret (1690-1743).

The model is illustrated in R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (1966), no. 956, where he mentions that it was first referred to in the Meissen records in 1744.

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