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An exceptionally rare pair of English porcelain figures of a Turkish Lady and Gentleman, circa 1758-62
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An exceptionally rare pair of English porcelain figures of a Turkish Lady and Gentleman, circa 1758-62
Longton Hall or Vauxhall, after the Meissen originals by Johann Joachim Kändler, attractively enamelled in complimenting colours with matching blue and white turbans, she standing in a dancing pose with her left arm raised, flicking her long hair with her right, wearing a yellow fur-lined coat and pink patterned smock over yellow skirts, he standing in dramatic pose, his right hand on the hilt of the sword at his hip, his left hand behind, wearing a pink fur-lined coat, yellow patterned smock and pink trousers, on mound bases applied with flowers, 18.5cm high (2)
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Provenance
Distinguished Private Collection
Exhibited
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
This pair is taken from two figures forming part of a set of 'Six Orientals' designed by Kändler for Meissen, circa 1745. The set is based on a collection of engravings made by different French artists entitled 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes Nations du Levant tirés sur les tableaux peints d'après Nature en 1707-1708 par ordres de M. Ferriole'. Ferriole was the French Ambassador to Constantinople and the engravings included Bulgarians, Hungarians, Turks and Levantines seen in the streets of the city. The Meissen versions are illustrated by F Berling, Festive Publication (1910), p.28, fig.37. The models were copied in English pottery and porcelain by several factories. A similar coloured pair is illustrated by Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain (1957), figs.42 and 43. They were also copied by Samuel Gilbody at Liverpool, see Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain 1756-1804 (2011), p.308, no.7.72 and the pair from the Peter Bradshaw Collection sold by Bonhams on 24 January 2007, lot 56. The only other recorded coloured example of the male figure is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (acc. no. 414:25-1885).