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Lot Essay
The present figure is about half the size of the series originally produced at Kloster Veilsdorf a few years earlier, both based on engravings by Johann Balthazar Probst after drawings by Johann Jacob Schübler and modeled by Wenzel Neu. See Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture, The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 2001, pp. 50-55, 289-290, cat. no. 62; also Hugo Morley-Fletcher; Early European Porcelain and Faience as Collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger, London, 1993, vol. 1, pp. 214-215.
Complete sets of the ten full-size Kloster Vielsdorf Commedia dell'Arte figures are in the Pflueger Collection, New York and that of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Partial sets can be seen at The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto (seven figures, Columbine, Brigatellin and Capitano Rodomonto lacking); at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, on loan from the family of Otto and Magdalena Blohm; and at the Thüringer Museum, Eisenach. Examples from the miniature series to which the present figure belongs are extremely rare.
Complete sets of the ten full-size Kloster Vielsdorf Commedia dell'Arte figures are in the Pflueger Collection, New York and that of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Partial sets can be seen at The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto (seven figures, Columbine, Brigatellin and Capitano Rodomonto lacking); at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, on loan from the family of Otto and Magdalena Blohm; and at the Thüringer Museum, Eisenach. Examples from the miniature series to which the present figure belongs are extremely rare.