Dancing Columbine

Modeled by Johann Joachim Kaendler, Royal Porcelain Manufactory Meissen

About 1740; Modeled about 1740

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Buff-colored, sculptural teapot of glazed porcelain with a spout that looks like a thumb and a cover that features an elephant head atop a seated human body, the teapot body with on one side an elephant in relief within a reserve highlighted in gold, the body also decorated with a transfer-printed frieze under the spout and skeleton figures and other motifs around it, with a banner under the spout that reads TUSKER.
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Small, shallow, oval pie dish of buff-colored caneware, the dish with crimped edge to resemble a pastry crust, the cover with a molded lattice pattern and applied cherry finial, the interior of the dish is glazed.
Tall, irregularly shaped bowl of reddish stoneware, Raku-fired creating a scorched, blackish-gray chalky surface, below the rim a series of diagonal lines extending around the body, the interior black.