A FÜRSTENBERG FIGURE OF DR. BOLOARDO modelled by Simon Feilner from the Commedia dell'Arte, in a black hat and mask, iron-red coat, black waistcoat, breeches and shoes with blue bows, two yellow gloves tucked into his white belt, standing with his feet apart and leaning forwards gesticulating with his hands before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with a yellow flower and leaves (broken through one side of base and repaired approximately 6.5cm. long, restoration to index fingers), circa 1754

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A FÜRSTENBERG FIGURE OF DR. BOLOARDO modelled by Simon Feilner from the Commedia dell'Arte, in a black hat and mask, iron-red coat, black waistcoat, breeches and shoes with blue bows, two yellow gloves tucked into his white belt, standing with his feet apart and leaning forwards gesticulating with his hands before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with a yellow flower and leaves (broken through one side of base and repaired approximately 6.5cm. long, restoration to index fingers), circa 1754
20cm. high

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This figure was taken from the engraving Le Docteur Boloard from the series of comedy figures published by Johann Jacob Wolrab in Nuremberg in 1722, see Hugo Morley-Fletcher, The Pflueger Collection, vol. I, p. 142 for the engraving and a similar example, the 1988 Exhibition Catalogue Weisses Gold aus Fürstenberg, p. 240, no. 162 lists three other known examples of this figure in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Kestner Museum, Hannover and in the Hamburg Museum for Kunst und Gewerbe formerly in the Blohm Collection, making the present example the fifth recorded and apparently the only example with a mask

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