CIRCA 1748, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF L'AVOCCATO FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE SERIES
CIRCA 1748, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, wearing a gilt-trimmed black tricorn hat, red mask, long white domino with yellow rosettes and long sleeves, puce waistcoat with gilt scrolls, black breeches and black gilt-buckled shoes, his right hand raised, his left holding a white glove, standing on a shaped mound base (left hand restuck, left sleeve, front corner of hat, right hand and element in it replacements, hat with further slight restored chipping, chipping to rosettes, areas of wear, firing cracks)
6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high

Provenance

With Rosenau, Paris.

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

For a similar example sold in these Rooms on 3rd December 1979, lot 72, and now in the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, see Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture (2001), p. 314, no. 119.

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