CIRCA 1755, INCISED W

細節

A FÜRSTENBERG FIGURE OF PANTALONE FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE SERIES
CIRCA 1755, INCISED W
Modelled by Simon Feilner, striding forward with his left hand behind his back under his long black cloak or vesta, his right hand stroking his long pointed beard, wearing a brown hat and red skull cap, a majenta jacket with yellow buttons, magenta breeches, grey stockings and yellow shoes with red heels, a dagger and a white red-striped handkerchief tucked under his yellow belt, on a shaped mound base applied with foliage and two large flowers (end tip of beard restored, left thigh cracked and secured with glue, part of left thigh possibly sprayed slightly, chipping to foliage and rose, chip to edge of base)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

來源

Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 650 (£1,200 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.

出版

Max Sauerlandt, Deutsche Porzellan-Figuren des 18. Jahrhunderts (Cologne, 1923), pl. 52.
Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), pp. 139-40, no. 174.

注意事項

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

拍品專文

The graphic source for this figure is Johann Jacob Wolrab's engraving Pantalon, published in Nuremberg in circa 1720. Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked (2001), p. 33, describes Pantalone's character as 'an elderly, suspicious, and miserly Venetian merchant, a husband or father who would be cuckolded, embezzled, or duped during the course of the play.' On p. 52 she discusses his costume, which remained the same from the early days of the Commedia dell'Arte. His black sleeved robe, or vesta was 'an official gown worn by gentlemen and citizens of Venice, but not by the common people.' The wide sleeves, or dogale were 'part of the official dress worn by the nine procuratori in Venice and by ambassadors, but they were often usurped by others'.

A similar figure of Pantalone as an older man, also in the Blohm Collection, is illustrated by Schmidt, op. cit., pl. 52, no. 173, and by Hugo Morley-Fletcher, 'Early European Porcelain & Faience as Collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger' Catalogue (London, 1993), Vol. I, p. 129.