Figure
ca. 1756 (made)
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Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, of a male monkey standing, dressed as a man in fashionable clothing 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
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, of a male monkey standing and playing a pipe and side drum, Chelsea Porcelain factory, London, ca. 1756 |
| Physical description | Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, of a male monkey standing, dressed as a man in fashionable clothing 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 |
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| Marks and inscriptions | An anchor (Painted in red) |
| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | One of three monkey figures 414:172/ to B-1885 (Sch. I 136 to B) These three figures were purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Willson, London, for £12 in March 1880 Copied from Meissen figures belonging to a set known as the 'Affenkapelle' (Monkey Orchestra), modelled by Johann Jaochim Kändler, ca. 1740, as a caricature of the Saxon Court Orchestra at Dresden. |
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| Other number | Sch. I 136 - Schreiber number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 414:172-1885 |
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| Record created | December 15, 2008 |
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