Live Auction 1571Important Russian Art
A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A HARLEQUIN DRESSED AS COLUMBINE
Lot 331 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III

A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A HARLEQUIN DRESSED AS COLUMBINE

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1770-1780S

Closed24 November 2014

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GBP 22,500

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A PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A HARLEQUIN DRESSED AS COLUMBINE
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1770-1780s
Realistically modelled and painted as a dancing harlequin, wearing varicolour chequered jacket, beige, pink and green skirt and a pink feathered hat, on a rectangular naturalistic base, apparently unmarked
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high

Specialist note

The present figure is part of a pair of a Harlequin dressed as Colombine and a Harlequin (sold Christie’s, London, 2 June 2014, lot 306) by the Gardner Factory, circa 1770–1780s. A similar figure of a harlequin is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1982.60.158).