Model human
Category
Ceramics
Date
1758
Materials
porcelain
Measurements
155 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Stratford-le-Bow
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Fenton House, London
NT 1448029
Summary
A figure of Harlequin in dancing pose, holding a slap-stick in his right hand, dressed in a puce hat, coat and trousers in chequered and varied colours, wearing a black mask and yellow shoes before a white tree-trunk, on a mound base encrusted with flowers. Modelled after the Meissen model by J. J. Kändler and P. Reinicke made for the Duke of Weissenfels. Restoration to hat and tree and repair to base beneath foot.