A MEISSEN FIGURE OF COLUMBINE modelled by J.J. Kändler and P. Reinicke, from the Commedia dell'Arte series made for the Duke of Weissenfels, in a white hat, chequered jacket with playing cards, striped skirt and pink shoes with blue bows, standing turned to her left in dancing pose holding a slap-stick, on a mound base applied with leaves and flowers (restored through waist and left arm, left hand and slap-stick restored replacements, right hand, wrist, toes and bows of shoes and hat restored, slight rubbing to gilding), circa 1744

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF COLUMBINE modelled by J.J. Kändler and P. Reinicke, from the Commedia dell'Arte series made for the Duke of Weissenfels, in a white hat, chequered jacket with playing cards, striped skirt and pink shoes with blue bows, standing turned to her left in dancing pose holding a slap-stick, on a mound base applied with leaves and flowers (restored through waist and left arm, left hand and slap-stick restored replacements, right hand, wrist, toes and bows of shoes and hat restored, slight rubbing to gilding), circa 1744
13.5cm. high

Literature

Len and Yvonne Adams, op. cit., p. 208

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar example sold in these Rooms on 1 March 1993, lot 211; see also Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 323 and 325

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