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CIRCA 1765
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A PAIR OF BOW FIGURES OF HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE
CIRCA 1765
Each modelled standing in dancing pose beside a bocage, Harlequin wearing a pale-yellow hat, black mask and a chequered suit, a slapstick tucked under his belt at his left side, Columbine wearing a pink hat with a red bow, a brightly-coloured panelled bodice with playing cards on her right arm and back and a yellow and pink flowered skirt, on scroll-moulded bases applied with flowers and foliage and supported on four scroll feet enriched in puce (chipping to his right fingers, bow on her hat, slight wear to enamels and gilding on her skirt, slight chipping to applied foliage and flowers to both figures)
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) and 7 1/16 in. (18 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1765
Each modelled standing in dancing pose beside a bocage, Harlequin wearing a pale-yellow hat, black mask and a chequered suit, a slapstick tucked under his belt at his left side, Columbine wearing a pink hat with a red bow, a brightly-coloured panelled bodice with playing cards on her right arm and back and a yellow and pink flowered skirt, on scroll-moulded bases applied with flowers and foliage and supported on four scroll feet enriched in puce (chipping to his right fingers, bow on her hat, slight wear to enamels and gilding on her skirt, slight chipping to applied foliage and flowers to both figures)
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) and 7 1/16 in. (18 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
With Albert Amor, London, from whom it was acquired on 30 June 2005.
Literature
Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 172-173.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
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Dominic Simpson