Featured German Porcelain Bottle of Man on Barrel - Anyone have info?

Hello everyone! I recently acquired this neat bottle at auction. It's about 6 1/4" tall and marked only with numbers on the bottom. It has a saying on the front but I can't quite make it out. As close as I decipher it says something like "Ich ben der turk don shoren" which google translate couldn't make much out of. The saying is raised lettering which proved to be difficult to photograph but I hope I got the words close enough that someone might recognize. A Google image search didn't turn anything up on this bottle either. The end of the lute is broken off at the hand and the top just sits on loosely now since the cork is long gone. Any help on the what, when, where would be appreciated. Thank you!
Don

 

We're going to need to see your best attempt at capturing what it says. Maybe other eyes will see it differently & turn it into something comprehensible.

 

it's very sweet !

 

I am the Turkish guy , Don Shoren.......???

 

This is the best I can do with my lousy editing. I want it to say Scotch but doesn't really look like it.

Ich bin der _ von _ ?

Google says that's I am the _ of _

 

ya .... von scotch. from scotch..

 

Thank you for that closeup, say_it_slowly. It's much better than I could have done.

 

Fiddling with it a little more. Definitely says Scotch.

 

@Figtree3
@Mat

 

I read: Ich ben der Türk von Shoten. I'm sure Shoten isn't right, but it's definitely not Scotch, which isn't a German word anyway.
Possibly a line from a popular song or play of the time.

 

Thanks for tagging me... Did I somehow volunteer to translate German? That was ambitious, if so!

I've studied a little about the older German scripts, and just looked at some online sources to refresh my memory. I think the last word is the name of a place (either a town or country, maybe?), but can't be sure of the letters.

I just saw @Any Jewelry 's post. I agree that the last word is not "Scotch." The only two letters I'm fairly sure of in that word are the "ot" in the middle. Interpreting the fourth word as "Turk" makes sense, given the context and the way the figure looks. But I actually can't see the last letter in that word at all. And true, the word on the figure is Türk, as AJ mentioned. I can see the umlaut now.

So "I am the Turk from ___ " seems like a good partial interpretation.

 

I would have bought him. I have a small collection of decanters that i have on my mantle for cooking spirits! One has vanilla it which i make my self.

 

It could be, although in general 'from' would be 'aus' in German.
'Von' can also be translated as 'of'.

 

Oh, yes -- "of" also makes sense when referring to one's native place. So that is a better translation.

 

The first letter of the last word looks a bit like the I in 'Ich', so maybe it is an I.

 

Don does it look like it could say Ich bin der Fürst von Thoren? This is a different item so doesn't identify the maker of yours anyway.

Text:
“Ich bin der Fürst von Thoren
zum Saufen auserkoren.”
(I am the prince of fools
chosen to booze.)

Fürst von Thoren (Prince of Fools) is the title character from a popular, though unattributed, German student drinking song, circa 1855. Text is the first two lines of that song.
https://www.beerstein.net/item.asp?ItemNum=rme-2192

 

Think you've nailed it. The figure is, after all, singing.

 

Now that you mention it, that's what it says!
And a line from a popular song was one of the likely possibilities.

 

Excellent! You've done it again.

 

SIS for the win!