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In Bustelli's Comedy Series of sixteen figures, Leda forms the pair to Capitano Spavento, and her hand is raised to ward off the Captain's attack on Ottavio (who is paired with Isabella). For the example in the Pflueger Collection, see Hugo Morley-Fletcher, 'Early European Porcelain & Faience, as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger' Catalogue (London, 1993), Vol. I, pp. 170-172. For another coloured example, also marked in a similar way as the present lot, see Katharina Hantschmann and Alfred Ziffer, 'Franz Anton Bustelli' Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Munich, Exhibition Catalogue (Munich, 2004), no. 145, pp. 285, 475 and p. 530, fig. 15 for the mark; and also see Meredith Chilton, 'Harlequin Unmasked, the Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture', Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Catalogue (2001), p. 32, p. 81, and p. 320, no. 132 where other examples are listed.