Royal Doulton Figurine The Clown HN2890 Animals Standing 8 inches tall and

Standing 8 inches tall and executed in green faience stoneware — one of Doulton Lambeth's distinctive earthenware bodies developed in the 1870s — it carries the Royal Doulton impressed backstamp of the period

producing a figure that carries its meaning lightly

while Catherine's pose suggests both confidence and the fragility that would prove her undoing

making it a desirable piece for collectors of Royal Doulton's vintage dance-themed figurines

Royal Doulton Figurine The Clown HN2890 Animals Standing 8 inches tall andThe Clown (HN2890) was designed by William K. Harper and issued from 1979 to 1988, standing 9 inches tall. It is the central piece in Harper's Royal Doulton clown series the figure from which the rest of his clown output grew, and the one against which collectors measure all the others. Harper's Clown is a pie thrower, mid act and entirely committed: the jokester in vivid full costume braced to launch a cream pie at whoever is standing closest. It is