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CIRCA 1760
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A CHELSEA GROUP OF HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE
Circa 1760
Standing hand in hand in a dancing pose before a tree stump applied with flowers, he in a purple mask and wearing chequered jacket and trousers, his slap-stick under his arm, his companion wearing a lilac bodice, flowered skirt and blue under skirt, the shaped scroll moulded base applied with coloured flowers and terminating on scroll feet, (his left hand and part of slap-stick lacking, thumbs lacking, minor chips to extremeties and flowers)
17 cm. (6 3/4 in.) high
See illustration
Circa 1760
Standing hand in hand in a dancing pose before a tree stump applied with flowers, he in a purple mask and wearing chequered jacket and trousers, his slap-stick under his arm, his companion wearing a lilac bodice, flowered skirt and blue under skirt, the shaped scroll moulded base applied with coloured flowers and terminating on scroll feet, (his left hand and part of slap-stick lacking, thumbs lacking, minor chips to extremeties and flowers)
17 cm. (6 3/4 in.) high
See illustration
Provenance
Christie's King Street, 20 May 1991, Lot 204
Special notice
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