CIRCA 1760, INCISED H:I

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A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF SCAPIN FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
CIRCA 1760, INCISED H:I
Modelled by J.W. Lanz, wearing a black snood, cape, jacket and breeches, an iron-red striped sash about his waist, on a scroll-moulded base enriched in gilding (small chip to edge of cape at reverse, minute chipping to edge of the base and collar)
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The graphic source for this figure is the engraving Fêtes Venitiennes by Laurant Cars after Watteau. See F.H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan (Munich, 1911), Vol. I, pl. 15, no. 50 for a similar example. The engraving, and the example from the Lady Mary Loyd Collection sold in these Rooms on 13th March 1967, lot 90, and now in the Pflueger Collection, are both illustrated by Hugo Morley-Fletcher, 'Early European Porcelain as Collected by Kiyi and Edward Pfleuger' Catalogue (London, 1993), Vol I, pp. 180-81.

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