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Lot no. 50
50. A Doccia figure of a Turk, circa 1760 Modelled wearing a turban and striped blue and red tunic tied with a gold belt, layered with a yellow robe lined in puce, standing on a thin rocky base, 15.2cm high, Literature Biancalana, Alessandro, Porcellane Ginori a Doccia. La stanza delle meraviglie di casa Colli, 2023, pp. 232-233, cat. 28. One of a series of twenty-four figures made at Doccia depicting non-European subjects and listed in the inventory of moulds (see Biancalana, 2023, p. 228 for the full archival list). The print source for this figure is taken from Charles de Ferriol's Recueil de Cent Estampes representant differentes Nations du Levant, Paris, 1714, specifically the engraving entitled "Emir/homme de Loy de la Race de Mahome (no. 22)." A slightly different Doccia figure of a Turk is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. 06.390.
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The CLASSICS Paris
75008 Paris - France
04/08/2025
Offered by BONHAMS CORNETTE DE SAINT CYR
01 47 27 11 24

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