A PAIR OF LOUIS XV MEISSEN PORCELAIN, TOLE PEINTE AND ORMOLU TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1750

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV MEISSEN PORCELAIN, TOLE PEINTE AND ORMOLU TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Circa 1750
One depicting a seated Harlequin playing the bagpipes after a model by J. J. Kndler, his companion, Columbine, with a violin on her knee after the model by P. Reinicke, each in a shaped trellis arbor with tree-form branches enriched with Vincennes and French porcelain flowerheads, the foliate drip-pans terminating in panelled rocaille nozzles, on a pierced rockwork and C-scroll base
8in. (20.4cm.)high, 11in. (28cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

The Harlequin and Columbine porcelain figures are part of the extensive Commedia dell'arte series executed at Meissen for the duke of Weissenfels, first cousin of Augustus III of Saxony. They were derived from Franois Joullain's engravings illustrating Riccoboni's Histoire du thtre italien published in Paris in 1727, and were modelled by Peter Reinicke under the supervision of J. J. Kndler.

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