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| Table Figurine Chelsea Porcelain Factory The Victoria & Albert Museum |
In the Eighteenth Century, as we’ve discussed, lavish sets of porcelain figures
were made to adorn the dining tables of wealthy households during the dessert
course. These sets and pairs of
porcelain figures usually depicted young men and women, usually in pastoral or in
theatrical Turkish dress.
The Meissen factory in Germany was the first to make
porcelain figures of Turks. These figures were quickly copied by the English porcelain
factories and some were also made in Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware.
The figure we see above was made by the Chelsea porcelain
factory in London and was copied from Meissen figures modelled by Johann
Joachim Kändler (1706-1776). These
figures would have flanked a third which contained a shell-shaped dish (which
we’ve looked at before) which would have held sweet-meats or sugared
plums.
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