id:			97983
accession number:	1917.617
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.617
updated:		2025-02-08 22:34:14.259000

Seated Musicians, c. 1765. Derby Porcelain Factory (British). Soft-paste porcelain; overall: 18.8 x 11.3 x 10.4 cm (7 3/8 x 4 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness 1917.617

title:				Seated Musicians
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creation date:			c. 1765
creation date earliest:		1760
creation date latest:		1770
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creditline:			Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness
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culture:	England, Derby, 18th century
technique:	soft-paste porcelain
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

* Derby Porcelain Factory (British)  - artist
in 1756 William Duesbury from Chelsea joined a banker John Heath who had an interest in the Cockpit Hill Pottery and André Planché, a "chinamaker of Derby," in an agreement to start a factory and this presumably became the first Derby Porcelain Factory.
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measurements: Overall: 18.8 x 11.3 x 10.4 cm (7 3/8 x 4 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
	opening date:   1934-11-09T05:00:00
	<i>Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mary Warden Harkness.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"Bequest of Mrs. Charles W. Harkness." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 4 (1917): 63.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 63
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136090

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