IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41993 accession number: EC.8A-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 21 September 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Harlequin, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, salmon-pink, pale and darker purple, and black enamels, and gilt. The square base has four scroll feet with a rocaille motif pierced by a heart between the front two. The underside of each foot is unglazed. The figure is supported at the back by a tall tree stump with a Y-shaped branch on each side bearing two applied flowers and leaves. At the base of the stump at the back there is a square aperture to take an attachment. Harlequin stands on his left leg with his right leg forward, his foot resting between two applied flowers on the front edge of the base. He leans back and to his right slightly, his left hand resting on his chest, and his right hand held out in front holding a slap stick which passes under his right arm. He wears a black carnival mask with eyebrows and whiskers, a pale purple hat with a turned back brim and gold scalloped edge. His jacket and trousers are patterned overall with triangles of different colours, and he has salmon-pink shoes with gold buckles. The tree has two blue flowers and two pink flowers, and there is a blue flower and a yellow flower on the top of the base. The base is picked out in pale green and two shades of purple. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Harlequin, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted over lead-glaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41993 PEOPLE ------------------- Harlequin TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted over lead-glaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, second half# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.5 CITATIONS -------- Das Meissner Porzellan und seine Geschichte Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain British Ceramics and Glass, 25th May 1993 Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture ---