The Dancing Lesson
Figure Group
ca. 1765 (made)
ca. 1765 (made)
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Group, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, consisting of a youth playing a hurdy-gurdy, while a girl is teaching a dog, dressed as Harlequin, to dance on a pedestal, and the youth is dressed in a wide black hat, pink-sleeved flowered and gilt coat and breeches, and the girl, who is half sitting on the branch of a flowering tree, wears plumes in her hair, a yellow cloak, and pink-lined greenish-blue dress caught up to show a flowered petticoat, and the group is supported on a rococo scrolled base picked out in gold and with applied flowers and foliage.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Dancing Lesson (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Group of The Dance Lesson, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, consisting of a youth playing a hurdy-gurdy, while a girl is teaching a dog, dressed as Harlequin, to dance on a pedestal, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1765 |
| Physical description | Group, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, consisting of a youth playing a hurdy-gurdy, while a girl is teaching a dog, dressed as Harlequin, to dance on a pedestal, and the youth is dressed in a wide black hat, pink-sleeved flowered and gilt coat and breeches, and the girl, who is half sitting on the branch of a flowering tree, wears plumes in her hair, a yellow cloak, and pink-lined greenish-blue dress caught up to show a flowered petticoat, and the group is supported on a rococo scrolled base picked out in gold and with applied flowers and foliage. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | The group is adapted from a composition by Carle Van Loo Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Joseph, London, for £30 in March 1871 Acquired as Chelsea porcelain. |
| Production | Bradshaw - p98 pl 77. Adapted from a composition by Carle Vanloo. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Pietsch, Ulrich, and Theresa Witting, Fascination of Fragility: Masterpieces of European Porcelain, Leipzig: E.A. Semann, 2010. |
| Other number | Sch. I 299 - Schreiber number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 414:178-1885 |
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| Record created | August 14, 2008 |
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