IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131028 accession number: C.1-1951 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 22 March 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, turquoise-green, yellow, flesh pink, puce, red, and black enamels. The underside is flat and unglazed and has a small central ventilation hole which has been plugged. The shallow base is almost round and rises up at the back into a tree stump with a projecting root on the viewer's left. Harlequin stands on his left foot with his right foot beside it and his right knee bent, leaning back against the tree stump. His head is turned to his left, and he holds up a pipe in his right hand and in his left holds the remains of a slapstick next to his right thigh. He has black hair, eyebrows, and a patch on his cheek, and red mouth, turned down at the corners. He wears a grey broad-brimmed hat with a green flower and a red feather attached to the turned up brim; a white ruffle round his neck, a partly yellow and partly red, green and black chequered coat, trousers with one blue leg and one purple and white striped leg, and black shoes with yellow bows on top. object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from H. E. Backer, London LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Cowper Reed Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131028 PEOPLE ------------------- Harlequin SUBJECTS ------------------- pipe pipe TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, turquoise-green, yellow, flesh pink, puce, red, and black enamels. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1738 - 1746 creation date earliest: 1738 creation date latest: 1746 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Frederick Augustus II (1696-1763) CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate for the year 1951 The Fitzwilliam Museum. An Illustrated Survey Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum Meissner Porzellan, seine Geschichte und Künstlerische Entwicklung Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell' Arte and Porcelain Sculpture Important French and Continental Furniture, Ceramics and Carpets including an important Beauvais Tapestry Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate for the year 1952 ---