Collection
Meissen
(Germany 1710– )
- Title
- Crimean Tatar
- Year
- circa 1745-1750
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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20.5 x 7.8 x 7.8 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.67
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
This figure, together with two others in the Reed Collection (L2012.65 and L2012.66), were adapted from prints in the ‘Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Lévant (Collection of 100 prints representing different eastern nations)’ published in 1714 –15 by Charles de Ferriol, French ambassador to the Ottoman court. The print in Ferriol’s Recueil is accompanied by a text which describes Tatars of the Crimea as ‘wolves among men’, fighting always on horseback, better adapted to pillaging than to fighting and laying waste to any country they encounter.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection 2012, Sydney, 2012, 29 (colour illus.). cat.no. 31
