Titles
Turkish Woman holding a Shell Dish
Maker(s)
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
(Factory)
Probably after
Eberlein, Johann Friedrich
(Modeller)
Description
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Turkish Woman holding a Shell Dish, painted overglaze in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Turkish Woman holding a Shell Dish, painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pink, brown, and red, and black (for the outlines of the flowers) enamels. The underside of the roughly triangular base is unglazed and has a central circular ventilation hole. The woman sits on a rock holding in both hands a scallop shell supported on a hollow rock with spongy seaweed, and shells on it. Her left foot projects slightly over the edge of the base, and her head is turned to her right. She wears a tall pink headdress with shoulder-length veil, a white coat over a long floral coat, pink harem trousers, and red shoes. The large shell is pale yellow with a central floral spray and several detached sprigs. The support has green seaweed and pink and red shells.
Notes
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Legal notes
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Measurements and weight
Height: 14.2 cm
Width: 13 cm
Relative size of this object
Place(s) associated
-
Stratford-le-Bow
⪼ Essex
⪼ England
-
Meissen
⪼ Saxony
⪼ Germany
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1950)
by
Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Dating
Mid-18th Century
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
Note
After a Meissen model of 1746 by J.F. Eberlein, which has a pair of a Turk holding a shell.
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, pink, brown, and red, and black)
lead-glaze
( presumed lead)
Visible Surfaces
Materials used in production
presumed phosphatic and containing bone ash
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding : Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, painted overglaze in polychrome enamels
References and bibliographic entries
- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
page(s): p. 60
- Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
page(s): pp. 135, 173
- Bow Porcelain
page(s): pp. 69-72
- Chelsea Porcelain, the Red Anchor Wares
- The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Meissen and other European Porcelain
page(s): pp. 119-121
- German Porcelain of the 18th Century
- Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain
page(s): p. 17
- Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection
page(s): pp. 173-4
- A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774
page(s): p. 71
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.83-1950
Primary reference Number: 42186
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 4 December 2020
Last processed: Sunday 21 March 2021
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
