Collection
Meissen
(Germany 1710– )
- Title
- Harlequin and a lady with parrots, model
- Year
- 1745
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
17.0 x 14.1 x 12.5 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.63
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The model is fully described in Kändler’s work records for November–December 1745 as ‘a Watteau group depicting a finely dressed lady in a gown seated on a lawn with a basket of cherries on her lap from which she offers cherries to a parrot in a nearby tree; a little table next to her with a parrot on it and beside them Harlequin’. While not in his traditional patchwork costume, Harlequin nevertheless carries the usual slapstick in his belt.
- Bibliography (2)
-
Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 28 (colour illus.). cat.no. 28
Josephine Touma, Look, 'Porcelain's powerful potential', pg.32-33, Newtown, Nov 2012, 32 (colour illus.), 33.
