A MEISSEN 'TURQUERIE' FIGURE OF A GIRL, CIRCA 1756-60 modelled after a French sketch of circa 1756 as a young girl in Turkish costume, wearing a puce cap and holding open her green gown to reveal a puce bodice, flower sprigged skirts and yellow underskirt, underside impressed ‘25’, 13cm high, chips The Paris ‘marchand mercier’, Gilles Bazin, sent to Meissen in 1756 a sheet depicting in watercolour and pen and ink eight designs of children dressed in Turkish costumes, to show the factory what he was after to sell in France. Produced as the 'Türkenkinder' series, each figure on the sheet is annotated (presumably by the factory) ‘No 25 Bazin’ and further annotated with a particular number, this model represented under ‘No.2508’ (see Haydn Williams, ‘Turquerie; an 18 th Century European Fantasy’, London, 2014, pp.177-179).

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