"They're who you want to be, but maybe you can't be because you're too stuffy."
Artist Ann Agee reflects on the Villeroy "Harlequin Family" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.
About the Artist
Ann Agee, born in 1959, is an American visual artist who works mainly in ceramics.

Ann Agee (American, born 1959)
Vase, 2009
Porcelain; 17 1/2 × 15 1/2 × 7 in. (44.5 × 39.4 × 17.8 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with funds contributed by The Women’s Committee and the Craft Show Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2010 (2010-189-1) © Ann Agee