Lot Details
Lot 68
Longton Hall Porcelain Commedia dell'Arte Figure of a Harlequin
Circa 1753, unmarked
Modeled striding wearing a mask, his right hand raised to the brim of his hat, supported by a tree-stump applied with foliage, on a shaped mound base.
Height 4 7/8 inches.
For a strikingly similar example from the Gardiner Collection see the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, object no.: G83.1.896. Also see, Sotheby's, London 21 April 1980, lot 271. For a polychrome example from the Rous Lench Collection, see Christie's, London, 29 May 1990, lot 419. Also, reference, Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 40B.
C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
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