Harlequin
Bow Porcelain Factory (fl.c. 1748-1774)
Category
Ceramics
Date
1754 - 1756
Materials
Soft-paste porcelain
Measurements
125 mm (H); 55 mm (W); 63 mm (D)
Place of origin
Stratford-le-Bow
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1395780
Caption
When it was first made the Harlequin would have decorated the dessert table. By 1872 there were about 30 similar figures grouped together on a table in the Cabinet, but today only two are left after most were sold at auction after World War 1 to raise funds for repairs to the house and estate.
Summary
Figure of Harlequin, soft paste porcelain, circular pad base, Harlequin is seated on rocky mound with crossed legs, playing a pipe, rwith uffled neckline and cuffs and a wide brimmed hat, Bow Porcelain Factory, c.1754; left in the white.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969).
Marks and inscriptions
unmarked
Makers and roles
Bow Porcelain Factory (fl.c. 1748-1774), manufacturer previously catalogued as by Johann Joachim Kändler (Germany 1706 - Meissen 1775) , sculptor