A MEISSEN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN ALARMED modelled by J.J. Kändler, in buff hat and iron-red and yellow tunic and trousers, his slapslick in his waistband, recoiling before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (broken off base and re-stuck, restored through right arm at shoulder, end of slapstick and hat restored, minor chips to foliage, area ground at back of tree-stump), the porcelain circa 1740, the decoration later
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN ALARMED modelled by J.J. Kändler, in buff hat and iron-red and yellow tunic and trousers, his slapslick in his waistband, recoiling before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (broken off base and re-stuck, restored through right arm at shoulder, end of slapstick and hat restored, minor chips to foliage, area ground at back of tree-stump), the porcelain circa 1740, the decoration later
16.5cm. high
Lot Essay
Cf. Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 278-279