CIRCA 1770

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A KLOSTER-VEILSDORF FIGURE OF A TURKISH MUSICIAN
CIRCA 1770
Modelled standing contraposto with a mandolin under his left arm, wearing a turban, pale-yellow jacket, scrolled waistcoat and ochre trousers, on a scroll-moulded base
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Based on an eighteenth century print source 'Le Turc Amoureux' by G.F.Schmidt and modelled by Pränger senior, a similar model appears in Keramos, July-October 1971, p. 87.
See also Sotheby's 5 March 1985, lot 135.

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