CIRCA 1759-62, INCISED H:I

Details

A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF PIERROT
CIRCA 1759-62, INCISED H:I
Modelled by J.W. Lanz, in a white hat, a tunic with long sleeves, trousers and shoes trimmed in blue, standing with his arms outstretched and stepping forwards before a green and brown tree-stump, on an arched mound base moulded with gilt and purple scrolls (restoration to hands and right sleeve, minor chipping, remnants of old overpainting to reverse of right leg)
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) high

Provenance

A Private Collection, Germany.
With Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich, from whom it was acquired on 26 January 2007.

Literature

Reinhard Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte, Fest der Komödianten, Keramische Kostbarkeiten aus den Museen der Welt, Stuttgart, 2001, p. 102, no. 86.
Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 88-89.

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Lot Essay

This figure appears to be from the same series as Pulcinella and Harlequin (lots 47 and 48). For a slightly earlier example on a flat base, see Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Early European Porcelain and Faience, as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger, London, 1993, Vol. I, pp. 78-179. Reinhard Jansen (ed.), ibid., p. 102, no. 86, notes two further published examples, their current whereabouts unknown.

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