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Figure
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Figure
- Place of origin:
London, England (made)
- Date:
ca. 1756 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Chelsea Porcelain factory (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
- Credit Line:
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
- Museum number:
414:172-1885
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain & Europe, room 139, case 3, shelf 5
Physical description
Figure, in porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, of a male monkey standing, dressed as a man in a costume of the 1740s, and wearing a cocked hat, a yellow short-sleeved tunic, and purple breeches, and playing a pipe and tabor or side drum, and he is supported on a gilded rococo scrolled base with applied flowers and foliage.
Place of Origin
London, England (made)
Date
ca. 1756 (made)
Artist/maker
Chelsea Porcelain factory (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Marks and inscriptions
An anchor
Dimensions
Height: 16.2 cm
Object history note
One of three monkey figures 414:172/ to B-1885 (Sch. I 136 to B).
Copied from Meissen figures belonging to a set known as the 'Affenkapelle' (Monkey Orchestra), modelled by Johann Jaochim Kaendler, ca. 1740, as a caricature of the Saxon Court Orchestra at Dresden.
Descriptive line
Figure, in porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, of a male monkey standing and playing a pipe and side drum, made by Chelsea Porcelain factory, London, ca. 1756
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Gilded
Subjects depicted
Monkey; Drums (membranophones); Melody pipes
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection code
CER
