A PAIR OF BOW PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURES OF HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE
A PAIR OF BOW PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURES OF HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE

CIRCA 1765, RED ANCHOR AND DAGGER MARK TO HARLEQUIN, GOLD ANCHOR AND DAGGER MARK TO COLUMBINE

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A PAIR OF BOW PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURES OF HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE
CIRCA 1765, RED ANCHOR AND DAGGER MARK TO HARLEQUIN, GOLD ANCHOR AND DAGGER MARK TO COLUMBINE
Her apron painted with playing cards
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
Provenance
F. Dickinson Collection, Southill, England.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.
Literature
C. Louise Avery, Masterpieces of European Porcelain, New York, 1949, no. 26.
Y. Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, MA, 1957, pl. 90, fig. 249.
Exhibited
New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Masterpieces of European Porcelain, 1949.

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