A Meissen figure of Harlequin with a snuff-box

CIRCA 1738

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A Meissen figure of Harlequin with a snuff-box
Circa 1738
In grey hat, white ruff and cuffs, one half of his jacket blue the other half with yellow, red and black lozenges, yellow and black breeches with red rosettes and grey shoes with red rosettes, standing in a twisted stance with his right arm and left leg raised and taking a pinch of snuff from a snuff-box at his waist, before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with leaves (his right little finger, three fingers on his left hand and cover of snuff-box lacking, broken through his right leg and repaired, base pierced, chips to foliage)
6¾in. (17.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Sacheverell Sitwell, Theatrical Figures, pl.4, for another example in the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe; also W.B.Honey German Porcelain, pl.8a, the Untermeyer Collection Catalogue, pl.39, fig.35 and Ingelore Menzhausen, In Porzellan verzaubert, p.129 for the example in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss collection

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