CIRCA 1745, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
CIRCA 1745, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler with Harlequin in a conical hat, white ruff, gilt-edged jacket, turquoise trousers and yellow shoes, a slap-stick tucked into his belt, Columbine seated before him at a table, wearing a pink bodice and skirt with indianische Blumen, a basket of cherries on her lap, the tripod table and the tree behind them each with a parrot, on a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to Harlequin's hat, hands and foot, her raised arm, the trunk, leaves and parrot in tree, slap-stick partially lacking, chipping to extremities)
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high

Provenance

With Penizek, from whom it was acquired in 1954.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

An example from the Marcel Nyffeler Collection was sold in these Rooms on 9th June 1986, lot 48. See also Erika Pauls Eisenbeiss, op. cit. (1972), pp. 308-309, where she records the entry in Kändler's Taxa for this model in November December 1746.

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