CIRCA 1744-49

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A VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE BOATMAN DAN HAGEL
CIRCA 1744-49
Modelled after Jaques Callot as a portly dwarf with long hair, his hat tipped back on his head and a knife tucked into a sash around his waist, holding a jug or tankard in his right hand while resting on a corded package of cargo, his left hand resting on his hip with the index finger pointing, on a mound base (half of base lacking, chipping to plume in hat, very slight crack to left foot, blemishes and grazing)
4¼ in. (10.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 5th July 1960, lot 143 (£190 to Pope)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.

Literature

Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), pp. 105-6.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Paper label printed with 229 attached to base, another paper label inscribed in black ink also attached.

The graphic source for this figure, plate 16 from Il Callotto resuscitato oder Neueingerichtet Zwerchen Cabinet bears the inscription Dan Hagel, Batavischer Boots Knecht u. redoutabler Meister dess gewöhnlichen schnittgefecht mit der stumpffen Klingen, which Schmidt, loc. cit., p. 106, translates as 'Dan Hagel, Batavian boatman and redoubtable master of the common slashing-bout with the blunt blade'. He illustrates the print on p. 98.

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