Royal Doulton Figurine HN5649 White Jester 0126/2500 With Certificate and Box

For over one hundred years, heritage, art and romance combined with painstaking attention to detail have been key elements of Royal Doulton’s figure collection. Our sculptors and artists have created works of art with the needs ofthe collector in the forfront of their minds.

The limited edition HN Icons collection celebrates the centenary of Royal Doulton figures. As well as representing the most iconic sculptures of the past ten decades, the miniature figures honour the role and creativity of Royal Doulton’s leading sculptors.

The HN Icons series also reflects the HN figure collection’s diversity of subject and breadth of style ranging from pretty ladies and character studies to prestige subjects.

It was Charles Noke, art director from 1914, who had the vision to revive and renew the Staffordshire Figure tradition and several of the early figurines, including the Jester, were his own work. Given Noke’s enthusiasm for lesters inspired by theatre and historical precedent, and the popularity of the theme for character figurines throughout the 20th century, it’s the perfect icon of the early period.

The Jester was produced in several versions and colourways but it’s Noke’s first design inspired by a medieval court jester that is used in the commemorative edition.

The fool perches on a column clasping one leg to his body, he’s dressed in a cowl and tunic over breeches in a striking black and white chequer decoration. Details that Noke included in his original such as the three cornered Fool’s hat and his mock sceptre-or bauble- have been meticulously remodelled in miniature scale.

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