ceramic figures

Europe decorative arts

ceramic figures, 18th century onwards

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" jellies, biscuits, sugar-plumbs, and creams have long given way to [ceramic] harlequins, gondoliers, Turks, Chinese and shepherdesses of Saxon china"
1753, Walpole

Cris de Paris 1745-50 Meissen	1745 Fitzwilliam Musem, Cambridge	player
		source	The original drawing from The Cries of Paris published 1737-1746 by Edmé Bouchardon
Cris de Paris	Cris de Paris stick and pipe are restored
1750 Longton Hall British Museum	18th century Limoges	18th century France part of a musicians group	Staffordshire Pearlware England	Sevres, France

1755-7 Chelsea, Pierrot
(restored pipe)

1755 Chelsea

1755 Chelsea
(with restorations)

1760 -70 pair of candlesticks

1760 -70 candlesticks, Chelsea

Bow

1765 Bow

c1758 Bow

1770 Bow

in Lincoln Art Gallery

1755 Bow

Derby

player 1755-60 Bow

1755-60 Bow

c1760 Bow

Bow

1755-60 Bow

1760-62

1760-65 Bow

Bow

c1760 Bow copy

1765 Chelsea

1760-65 Chelsea

1790 Derby (restored)

Derby

1765 Derby

copy Derby

BloorDerby

Derby, Victorian copy

Derby

1755 Bow

1760's Chelsea

1758-69 Chelsea

Chelsea copy

Derby

source

Chelsea

player

1860

back

1751-1800 Strassburg, Germany

Standing musician with a tricorne hat, a large cylindrical drum (narrow radius, high frame) hanging over his right arm (suspension damaged), which he hits with a large mallet in his left hand. He plays a galoubet or a one-handed flute (the lower part broken off).

Strassburg Porcelain Manufactory / Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory