The minuet

Gricci, Giuseppe (ca. 1700-1770)

Real Fabbrica della porcellana di Capodimonte (mid-18th century) (workshop of)

Item type:

decorative art

Date of creation:

ca. 1750

Height:

19.7 cm  (7 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilded decoration

Place of creation:

Italia

Additional titles

Description

Both of the dancers in this porcelain pair wear masks: the man's is half-face brown, the woman's is full-face black, supplemented by black elbow-length, fingerless gloves (only the right one visible in museum photograph).
Description from museum website:
Arm in arm, a youth with brownish green mask, his waistcoat finely painted with scrolling flowers and his green breeches with star and quatrefoils in purple, and his companion with red and green hat, black mask, her white coat and apron edged in iron-red and her skirt with a trellis design in blue, ochre and purple, a flowerspray covering a firing crack in the rockwork base.

Iconclass

43C92
one pair dancing; man and woman dancing as a couple
41D2
clothes, costume
41D283
mask
41D225(...)
gloves, mittens (LONG, FINGERLESS)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5944