IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42132 accession number: C.80-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash (presumed), press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, a little flesh-pink, red, pale greyish-brown, pale brown, dark brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The three-sided base is closed underneath and has a concave area at the front, and a large circular ventilation hole further back. The interior of the group and the central area of the base are glazed. Beltrame sits on a large green and brown mound with Columbine seated on his left knee. His right foot rests on Harlequin who reclines on the ground in front of them, lasciviously lifting Columbine's skirt a little with his left hand and peering beneath it. Beltrame wears a black hat, a white shirt with a ruff; a white jacket with red and white striped sleeves, and gold trimming round the armholes and waist; breeches with red and white stripes at the top and yellow fabric at the bottom and a gold rosette at the knee; and black shoes with gold bows. Columbine wears a small yellow tricorn hat, a green bodice with blue lacing over a white stomacher, a flowered skirt, and yellow high-heeled shoes with white bows. Harle-quin has a long-sleeved, pale greyish-brown jacket with red collar and cuffs, and four gold flower-shaped buttons down the front; breeches with a red trellis diaper pattern; blue stockings, and black shoes with a red rosette on top. The top of the base is green with applied green leaves, and flowers: a white, a yellow, a blue and three red and white. object type: soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42132 PEOPLE ------------------- Harlequin Columbine Beltrame TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1753 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1753 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The English Ceramic Circle, 1927-1948: English Pottery and Porcelain. Commemorative catalogue of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum title: Bow Porcelain title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam, "The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation" title: Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten CITATIONS -------- The English Ceramic Circle, 1927-1948: English Pottery and Porcelain. Commemorative Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1950 English Ceramics Commedia dell'Arte in Glass and Porcelain Bow Porcelain European Porcelain of the 18th Century Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation'' Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten Meissen and England - the Baroque German Porcelain of the 18th Century Messien: Steinzeug und Porzellan des 18. 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