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Worcester Porcelain Figure of the Turk's Companion or the Levantine Lady Circa 1765-70, the model likely by John Toulouse Modeled standing wearing a red crowned white turban, a pale-yellow fur-lined coat, a tunic with puce rosettes and blue medallions among scattered red dots, a jeweled belt, a gilt banded white underskirt and iron-red shoes, the rocaille-scroll molded base enriched in gilt and puce and applied with two yellow centered daisies. Height 5 1/2 inches. Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1956, . Errol & Henrietta Manners exhibition catalogue, 'Roy Hogarth Collection of rare English figures', 27 February 2018, p. 30, for an example of this model on a non-rocaille-molded base. Here noting that there are only a handful of Worcester figures extant. For a pair of Worcester figures of a Turk and his companion on circular mound bases, see Sotheby's, London, 2 November 2011, . For similar pairs of figures, see The Zorensky Collection, Bonham's, part I, 16 March 2004, , and part II, 23 February 2005, . While examples of figures with the rounded base can be found at the British Museum, no. 1938,0314.84.CR, the Museum Fine Arts Boston, no. 1988.1044 and the Dyson Perrins Museum; the present model is the only example extant on a rocaille-molded base. The modeler John Toulouse is thought to have worked at the Worcester factory from circa 1765-1772 and later at Chamberlain's. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
Turban plume missing, her left shoulder lightly abraided.