A KLOSTER VEILSDORF FIGURE OF PIERROT FROM THE ITALIAN COMEDY after the model by Wenzel Neu, in a yellow floppy hat, white ruff and yellow jacket and trousers with iron-red shoes, standing looking alarmed with his left index finger on his bottom lip and his other hand holding a whip, on a circular white mound base (part of whip lacking) faint blue CV mark to underside of base, circa 1770

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A KLOSTER VEILSDORF FIGURE OF PIERROT FROM THE ITALIAN COMEDY after the model by Wenzel Neu, in a yellow floppy hat, white ruff and yellow jacket and trousers with iron-red shoes, standing looking alarmed with his left index finger on his bottom lip and his other hand holding a whip, on a circular white mound base (part of whip lacking) faint blue CV mark to underside of base, circa 1770
15.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Taken from an engraving by Johann B. Probst adapted from drawings by Johann Jacob Schübler and published by Jeremias Wolffs Erben at Augsburg in 1729, pl. 5

Cf. Roda S. Soloweitschik, op. cit., pl. 39; also W. B. Honey, German Porcelain, pl. 90b for an example in the Victoria and Albert Museum; an example sold Christie's Geneva, 14 May 1990, lot 37 and another from the Ernesto F. Blohm collection sold in these Rooms, 10 April 1989, lot 41

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