IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42010 accession number: EC.8B-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, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, red, two shades of purple, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The square base has four scroll feet with a rocaille motif pierced by a heart between the two feet at the front. The underside of each foot is unglazed. The figure is supported at the back by a tree stump with on each side, a low Y-shaped branch bearing two flowers and leaves. At centre back below the figure, there is a square aperture to take an attachment. Columbine stands on her left foot with her right foot forward, resting between two applied yellow flowers on the base. Her head is tilted to her left, her right hand is raised to touch her hat, and her left arm is extended in front of her holding the end of a slap stick which rests on her left hip. She wears a yellow broad-brimmed hat with a pink underside and gold scalloped edge, and has a pink ruffle round her neck. The back of her bodice is half pink and half yellow; the front blue, and the pink and yellow sleeves are decorated with playing cards. Her full skirt is decorated with sprays of polychrome flowers and foliage on the front, and with scrolls and playing cards on the back. Its lower edge has a pinkish-red painted flounce. The two flowers on the viewer's right of the tree are blue and pink, and those on the left are yellow and blue. 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, painted overglaze 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/42010 PEOPLE ------------------- Columbine SUBJECTS ------------------- slapstick slapstick TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, red, two shades of purple, brown, and black 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: 17.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.6 CITATIONS -------- German Porcelain of the 18th Century Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 The Comedians of Franz Antony Bustelly 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 ---