A pair of Kloster-Vielsdorf figures of Harlequin and Columbine from the Commedia dell'Arte series

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A pair of Kloster-Vielsdorf figures of Harlequin and Columbine from the Commedia dell'Arte series

CIRCA 1767

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A pair of Kloster-Vielsdorf figures of Harlequin and Columbine from the Commedia dell'Arte series
Circa 1767
Modelled by Wenzel Neu, he in a black skull-cap and mask, holding his white hat in his left hand, his right hand with a letter and raised to his ear, in brightly chequered clothes and red shoes, standing before a tree-stump on an oval mound base, his companion in a white hat and black mask, a chequered jacket with puce scarf, her white skirt with a puce scrolling foliage border and puce hem, standing with one hand on her hip and the other holding her skirt, on a circular mound base (he with part of letter lacking, her head restuck)
He 57/8 in. (15 cm.) and she 65/8 in. (16.9 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Neu derived these figures from the Grosse Theaterfiguren published in Augsburg in 1729 with engravings by Johann Balthasar Probst after the water-colours by Johann Jacob Schübler. See H. Morley-Fletcher, Pflueger Collection Catalogue (London 1993), Vol. I, pp. 206-207 for a similar pair of figures.

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