Lot 43
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A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF SCARAMOUCHE
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A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF SCARAMOUCHE

CIRCA 1759-62, BLUE RAMPANT LION MARK AND JAH(?) MONOGRAM

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A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF SCARAMOUCHE
CIRCA 1759-62, BLUE RAMPANT LION MARK AND JAH(?) MONOGRAM
Modelled by J.W. Lanz, in a black snood, a short red-edged black cape, tunic and breeches tied with a red sash, gesturing to his nose with his right hand in mockery or impudence, standing with his legs astride, before a tree-stump on a rococo scroll-moulded mound base enriched in purple (some retouching to black enamels, small chip to hem of cape, slight restoration to bows)
5 1/8 in (13 cm.) high
Provenance
A Private Collection, Germany.
With Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich, from whom it was acquired on 26 January 2007.
Literature
Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 86-87.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

See the similar example in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, illustrated by F.H. Hoffmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan, Munich, 1911, Vol. I, pl. 16, no. 62 and by Reinhard Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte, Fest der Komödianten, Keramische Kostbarkeiten aus den Museen der Welt, Stuttgart, 2001, p. 104, no. 90.

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