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A Pair of Chelsea Figural Salts in Turkish Costume, Circa 1755
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A Pair of Chelsea Figural Salts in Turkish Costume, Circa 1755
probably modeled by Joseph Willems after Meissen originals, dressed as a Turk and a Levantine Lady, seated on a rocky mound base, and holding large scallop shells painted with sprays of flowers, the bases applied with flowers, red anchor marks.
Height 6 1/4 in.
15.8 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Melbourne (by 1984)
Exhibited
Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Flowers and Fables - A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69, Melbourne 1984, exh. cat. no. 71, bearing label
Catalogue note
In a letter of July 9, 1761, Horace Walpole grumbles to Sir Horace Mann, the British Minister at the Court of Tuscany, commenting about the new fashion in table decoration at the banquets of the English nobility:
“Jellies, biscuits, sugar-plumbs, and creams have long given way to harlequins, gondoliers, Turks, Chinese, and Shepherdesses of Saxon China. But these, unconnected, and only seeming to wander among groves of curled paper and silk flowers, were soon discovered to be too insipid and unmeaning... Confectioners found their trade molder away"
cited from Bet Mcloud, 'Horace Walpole's Ceramics at Strawberry Hill', International Ceramics Fair and Seminar Handbook, London, 1995.
A pair of the Meissen prototype figures, modeled by J. F. Eberlein, was sold at Sotheby's London, October 25, 2016, lot 605.
probably modeled by Joseph Willems after Meissen originals, dressed as a Turk and a Levantine Lady, seated on a rocky mound base, and holding large scallop shells painted with sprays of flowers, the bases applied with flowers, red anchor marks.
Height 6 1/4 in.
15.8 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Melbourne (by 1984)
Exhibited
Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Flowers and Fables - A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69, Melbourne 1984, exh. cat. no. 71, bearing label
Catalogue note
In a letter of July 9, 1761, Horace Walpole grumbles to Sir Horace Mann, the British Minister at the Court of Tuscany, commenting about the new fashion in table decoration at the banquets of the English nobility:
“Jellies, biscuits, sugar-plumbs, and creams have long given way to harlequins, gondoliers, Turks, Chinese, and Shepherdesses of Saxon China. But these, unconnected, and only seeming to wander among groves of curled paper and silk flowers, were soon discovered to be too insipid and unmeaning... Confectioners found their trade molder away"
cited from Bet Mcloud, 'Horace Walpole's Ceramics at Strawberry Hill', International Ceramics Fair and Seminar Handbook, London, 1995.
A pair of the Meissen prototype figures, modeled by J. F. Eberlein, was sold at Sotheby's London, October 25, 2016, lot 605.
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A Pair of Chelsea Figural Salts in Turkish Costume, Circa 1755
probably modeled by Joseph Willems after Meissen originals, dressed as a Turk and a Levantine Lady, seated on a rocky mound base, and holding large scallop shells painted with sprays of flowers, the bases applied with flowers, red anchor marks.
Height 6 1/4 in.
15.8 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Melbourne (by 1984)
Exhibited
Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Flowers and Fables - A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69, Melbourne 1984, exh. cat. no. 71, bearing label
Catalogue note
In a letter of July 9, 1761, Horace Walpole grumbles to Sir Horace Mann, the British Minister at the Court of Tuscany, commenting about the new fashion in table decoration at the banquets of the English nobility:
“Jellies, biscuits, sugar-plumbs, and creams have long given way to harlequins, gondoliers, Turks, Chinese, and Shepherdesses of Saxon China. But these, unconnected, and only seeming to wander among groves of curled paper and silk flowers, were soon discovered to be too insipid and unmeaning... Confectioners found their trade molder away"
cited from Bet Mcloud, 'Horace Walpole's Ceramics at Strawberry Hill', International Ceramics Fair and Seminar Handbook, London, 1995.
A pair of the Meissen prototype figures, modeled by J. F. Eberlein, was sold at Sotheby's London, October 25, 2016, lot 605.
probably modeled by Joseph Willems after Meissen originals, dressed as a Turk and a Levantine Lady, seated on a rocky mound base, and holding large scallop shells painted with sprays of flowers, the bases applied with flowers, red anchor marks.
Height 6 1/4 in.
15.8 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Melbourne (by 1984)
Exhibited
Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Flowers and Fables - A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69, Melbourne 1984, exh. cat. no. 71, bearing label
Catalogue note
In a letter of July 9, 1761, Horace Walpole grumbles to Sir Horace Mann, the British Minister at the Court of Tuscany, commenting about the new fashion in table decoration at the banquets of the English nobility:
“Jellies, biscuits, sugar-plumbs, and creams have long given way to harlequins, gondoliers, Turks, Chinese, and Shepherdesses of Saxon China. But these, unconnected, and only seeming to wander among groves of curled paper and silk flowers, were soon discovered to be too insipid and unmeaning... Confectioners found their trade molder away"
cited from Bet Mcloud, 'Horace Walpole's Ceramics at Strawberry Hill', International Ceramics Fair and Seminar Handbook, London, 1995.
A pair of the Meissen prototype figures, modeled by J. F. Eberlein, was sold at Sotheby's London, October 25, 2016, lot 605.
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