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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN
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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1770-80S

Fermé2 June 2014

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1770-80s
Realistically modelled and painted as a dancing harlequin, wearing a green and ochre hat, varicolour chequered jacket and trousers, on a square base, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark
6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm.) high

Note du spécialiste

The present figure is part of a pair of a Harlequin and Harlequin dressed as Colombine made by the Gardner Porcelain Factory circa 1770–80. A similar figure of a harlequin is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession numbers 1982.60.157 and 1982.60.158 (a pair).
For another similar model, also see V. A. Popov, Russian Porcelain: Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, no. 7 (part).