Colombina

• Porcelain head clown doll
• weight : 247 grammes

Commedia dell’arte: The soubrette Columbine appeared for the first time in the 17th century as the maid, the female character. She is a sensual figure, most often in love with Harlequin in her scenes.  She may be prim and graceful or bold and uncouth, but with her intellect and legitimate affection for others, she is never as crude or vulgar as Franceschina or Ruffiana. The primary means of modern comedy for conveying reason is to confront the other characters with Columbine’s straight character. Her dress is usually fashionable and varied, sometimes sophisticated, but it can be tattered and boring. From the 19th century her costume has become more uniform as a long dress, usually white and slightly old fashioned. She most often does not wear a mask, in part due to her vanity, at times she wears an eye mask. Her problems are romantic, her manifestations are sometimes clownish or girlish, sometimes cheeky, sometimes creative, but Columbine is the first line of morality and purity in Commedia. ‘The little dove’ takes wind in dramas again and again: in Pagliacci, as Dorine in Tartuffe, or even as Columbia in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.