Turk scent bottle and stopper
ca. 1755
This work was a gift from the collection of Frances McDougall, an original member of the Seattle Ceramic Society beginning in the mid-1940s.
The mustachioed man wearing a blue and white turban, a gilt-edged and yellow-lined lavender coat tied with a gold-striped white sash over with trousers and iron-red boots, carrying a sword and a shield, a brown quiver of arrows fastened to his back with a turquoise strap, and a modeled striding on a low circular mound base molded around the edge with gilt-heightened rococo scrolls, his head forming the stopper, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, (wear to the gilding on the base); the neck with a gold mount and attached with a chain affixed to the quiver.
Porcelain
2 5/16 x 1 x 1/2 in. (5.9 x 2.5 x 1.3 cm)
Gift of Frances McDougall
2014.16.6
Provenance: [Frank G., Stoner, Charlotte Amilie Virgin Islands]; Purchased from gallery by Frances McDougall, May 1962 – her death; by inheritance to Mrs. McDougall’s grand-daughter Katherine Kasony-Quinn; gift from Ms. Kasony-Quinn to Seattle Art Museum (in her grandmother’s name), June 2014.
Photo: Elizbeth Mann
