Name of Object:

Figures in Turkish style

Location:

Madrid, Spain

Holding Institution:

National Museum of Romanticism

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Holding Institution (original language):

Museo Nacional del Romanticismo

Date of Object:

Second third of the 19th century

Inventory Number:

MR370/1 and MR370/2

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Moulded; enamelled, painted and gilded porcelain

Dimensions:

31 x 15 x 14 cm / 32 x 15 x 14 cm

Provenance:

France

Description:

In these two porcelain figures, it is showed through the clothes, and combined with the Rococo style of the bases. Produced by many European manufactures at the time, this kind of objects could be easily found in rooms as the fumoir, usually decorated in an Orientalist style to recreate exoticism.

Type of Object

Decorative Arts; Porcelain

Citation of this web page:

Isabel Ortega Fernández "Figures in Turkish style" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;es;45;en

Prepared by: Isabel Ortega Fernández
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: SP 045