IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80746 accession number: C.94-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 14 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure group of Harlequin and Columbine holding a little boy, standing under a tree on a base with a scrolled edge title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before 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/80746 PEOPLE ------------------- Harlequin Columbine child SUBJECTS ------------------- tree flowers tree flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- 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. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1756 - 1759 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1759 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 The Linsky Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Porcelain in the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture European Ceramics, 26th November 2002 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_94_1950.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 588 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_94_1950.jpg height: 646 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_94_1950.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 588 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_94_1950.jpg height: 323 pixels width: 250 pixels