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Harlequin and Columbine

Made at: Bow Manufactory (England)
English
about 1750
Object Place: Europe, England

Medium/Technique Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions 19.05 cm (7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Jessie and Sigmund Katz Collection
Accession Number58.1407
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

DescriptionItalian comedy group of almost cream color on irregular base. Two seated figures (H's right toe gone) Harlequine holds music in right hand, left arm under Columbine's plucking stringed instrument (two fingers of left hand missing). After a Meissen model by J. J. Kandler, based on an engraving by C. N. Cochin after a Watteau design.