A MEISSEN FIGURE OF SCAPIN from the Commedia dell'arte series modelled by J.J. Kändler and P. Reinicke for the Duke of Weissenfels, the moustached and bearded figure in puce-lined black cape, yellow tunic with gilt frogging and iron-red trousers, a pouch and a dagger at his waist and a green hat in his left hand, standing before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with a flower and foliage (his right toe restored, chips to foliage and slight flaking to hat), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1744

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF SCAPIN from the Commedia dell'arte series modelled by J.J. Kändler and P. Reinicke for the Duke of Weissenfels, the moustached and bearded figure in puce-lined black cape, yellow tunic with gilt frogging and iron-red trousers, a pouch and a dagger at his waist and a green hat in his left hand, standing before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with a flower and foliage (his right toe restored, chips to foliage and slight flaking to hat), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1744
13.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Siegfried Ducret, Keramik und Graphik des 18 Jhr., no. 316; see also Rainer Rückert, op. cit., no. 961 and Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, vol. 1, p. 341

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