Pierrot
Figure
ca. 1760 (made)
ca. 1760 (made)
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Figure of Pierrot in soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and slightly gilded, wearing a wide cream coloured hat, yellow coat and trousers, and a pink collar; he stands with uplifted arms beside a flowering tree-stump on a round base decorated with scrolls in crimson and applied flowers and leaves.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Pierrot (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted ih enamels and slightly gilded |
| Brief description | Figure of Pierrot, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and slightly gilded, wearing a wide cream coloured hat, yellow coat and trousers, made by Bow Porcelain Factory, London, ca. 1760. |
| Physical description | Figure of Pierrot in soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and slightly gilded, wearing a wide cream coloured hat, yellow coat and trousers, and a pink collar; he stands with uplifted arms beside a flowering tree-stump on a round base decorated with scrolls in crimson and applied flowers and leaves. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | Pierrot is one of the characters in the Italian Comedy, Commedia dell' Arte, copied with slight modifications from a Meissen figure modelled ca. 1743 by Reinecke, after pl. 17, engraved by Joullain, in Riccoboni, Histoire du théâtre italien, published in 1731. Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Nixon & Rhodes, London, for £1 in June 1868 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Literary reference | Commedia dell' Arte |
| Bibliographic reference | Bradshaw, Peter. Bow Porcelain Figures, circa 1748-1774. 1992, fig. 75 |
| Other number | Sch. I 47 - Schreiber number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 414:21-1885 |
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| Record created | December 5, 2008 |
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