IDENTIFIERS
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id:	80746
accession number:	C.94-1950

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 14 October 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: Unknown before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80746

PEOPLE
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Harlequin
Columbine
child

SUBJECTS
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tree
flowers
tree
flowers



TECHNIQUES
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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
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1756 - 1759
creation date earliest:	1756
creation date latest:	1759
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Derby Porcelain Factory
maker: William Duesbury & Co.
maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 20.5



CITATIONS
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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
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