A Hewelcke (Venice) figure of a Turk, 1758-63

standing in a formal pose in a full-length striped cloak and pantaloons, wearing a red-striped turban set with a crescent and a yellow-edged blue tunic, on a brown-washed gadrooned base moulded with a 'V' picked out in red (some restoration and crack)

Sotheby's London, 13 September 1999, lot 136

Museo Giuseppe Gianetti, Porcellane Italiane della Collezione Gianetti, Saronno, 2000, p.156.

Broken across thighs and re-stuck, with only minor losses. Extended firing crack through his feet incorporating back half of base, again with minor losses. chip to one tip of crescent.
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Arthur Lane, in Italian Porcelain, London, 1954 discusses the output of this experimental and short-lived Venetian factory. A portrait plaque is illustrated pl.15, which also bears the distincitve V mark. He also mentions the use of green and a bright dry yellow enamel used in the decoration, which is a strong feature of the present lot. G. Mordizzoni, in op. cit., vol. I, pl. 30 and pl. 31, also illustrates a series of similar figures, bearing the V initial.