Lot 238
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF SCAPIN leaning backwards and turned to his right holding a black hat, in white cape, pink tunic with gilt frogging and yellow trousers and black shoes, standing before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with a flower and foliage (restoration to lower part of left arm and between hat and cape, pouch, hilt of sword and right foot and flower at front), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1744

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF SCAPIN leaning backwards and turned to his right holding a black hat, in white cape, pink tunic with gilt frogging and yellow trousers and black shoes, standing before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with a flower and foliage (restoration to lower part of left arm and between hat and cape, pouch, hilt of sword and right foot and flower at front), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1744
13.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. the examples sold Christie's Geneva, 11 May 1981, lot 100 and 3 December 1982, lot 86 and in these Rooms, 1 December 1986, lot 139 and 22 June 1992, lot 215; Rainer Rückert, op. cit., no. 961 for an example in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Dusseldorf

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