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Harlequin, Columbine and Child under a Tree, also known as Harlequin's Family
Factory:
Derby Porcelain Factory
Proprietor:
William Duesbury & Co.
Modeller:
Kändler, Johann Joachim
(After)
Soft-paste porcelain figure group of Harlequin and Columbine holding a little boy, standing under a tree on a base with a scrolled edge
Soft-paste porcelain figure group, slipcast, with applied hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in pale turquoise, yellowish-green, green, yellow, flesh, pink, puce, purle, red, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt.
Harlequin is wearing a white hat, with a blue, red, and yellow triangle pattern jacket and trousers, as well as black shoes with red buckles. Columbine wears a green and red bodice, white blouse, white skirt with wavy lines in yellow, red and black, as well as white shoes with red bows. The child wears a pink hat and flowered dress.
The flat unglazed underside has a central round ventilation hole, and three very slight patch marks at intervals on the edge. The edge of the four-sided convex base is moulded with inward and outward curving C-scrolls, and has five applied flowers and leaves, around the base of the flowering tree which stands in the centre, leaning towards the front.
History note: Unknown before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1950) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1756
CE
-
1759
CE
The group was derived from the Harlequin Family, a Meissen model of 1738 by J.J. Kaendler, which does not have a tree between Harlequin and Columbine. Chilton, Documentation 2001, cites numerous examples of the Meissen model, and copies by other factories, including Mennecy, and Derby. The model is D3 in Bradshaw's list of 'Pale Family Derby Models 1756-9', Documentation, 1990, although its colouring is not typically pale.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( pale turquoise, yellowish-green, green, yellow, flesh, pink, puce, purle, red, brown, grey, and black)
gold
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( presumed)
Base
Width 15.1 cm
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slipcast, with applied hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in pale turquoise, yellowish-green, green, yellow, flesh, pink, puce, purle, red, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt.
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.94-1950
Primary reference Number: 80746
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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