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Turk
Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Earthenware decorated with lead-glazes coloured green, yellow, manganese-brown, and black
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 18th Century
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
1765
CE
Probably copied from an English figure after a Meissen model by J.J. Kaendler after an etching in the comte de Ferriol's 'Receuil de cent estampes représentant differentes Nations du Levant', Paris, 1714. The Meissen figure was also copied in salt-glazed stoneware and in Longton Hall porcelain.
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
Decoration
dark cream Earthenware
Moulding
: Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded and decorated with lead-glaze coloure green, yellow, manganese-brown, and black
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.841-1928
Primary reference Number: 76209
Old object number: 3858
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Turk" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76209 Accessed: 2022-12-07 14:35:40
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Accession Number: PD.128-2015
Accession Number: M.1-1946
Accession Number: CM.GC.64-R
Accession Number: CM.BI.2280-R
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