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Johann Joachim Kändler, designer

Turkish Woman with Basket, late 1700s

Description

Maker

  • Johann Joachim Kändler, 1706-1775, German, modeler
  • Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, 1710-present, German

Title

Turkish Woman with Basket

Year

late 1700s

Medium

Porcelain with enamels, glaze, and gilding

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • porcelain

Dimensions

Height: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 inches)

Place

Dresden

Type

  • Ceramics

Credit

Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

37.086

Projects & Publications

Publications

Arlene Shechet

All At Once

The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Arlene Shechet

January 17 - July 6, 2014

European Galleries

Dressed in pointed shoes, jewels, and feathers, porcelain figures were designed to delight guests at the dinner table. They exemplify turquerie, a European style based on romanticized Turkish culture and aesthetics. In the 1700s, European nobles and members of royal courts attended Turkish-themed plays and operas, read Turkish tales, and lounged in Turkish robes and turbans.

Informing turquerie style was the portfolio Collection of 100 Prints Representing Different Nations of the Levant, which included engraved plates of Turkish royals and citizens. Published in Paris in 1714, those engravings followed a collection by Dutch artist Jean-Baptiste Van Mour, who traveled to Istanbul with the French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. In the 1740s, the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory produced figures similar to images in the portfolio, and other manufactories soon followed.

Related

Johann Joachim Kändler, designer

Turkish Woman with Sugar Basket, ca. 1745

Johann Joachim Kändler, designer

Turkish Man with Sugar Basket, ca. 1745

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