Porcelain figure group showing a seller of quack medical treatments

Made:: 1750-1924 in Meissen

designer:: Johann Joachim Kändler

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Porcelain figure group
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Porcelain figure group, depicting a charlatan with a monkey and Harlequin, Meissen, Germany, 1750-1924, after a model by Kaendler; Harlequin, holding packets of medication, stoops by a table laden with ingredients, a monkey sits amongst medicine bottles, Joseph Fröhlich as the Quack Doctor holds a quack remedy, arranged on a decorative grassy base.

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Category:: Medical Ceramic-ware

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A645410

Materials:: porcelain

Measurements:: overall: 192 mm x 202 mm x 132 mm, 1.36 kg

type:: porcelain figure group and quack

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