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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF 'THE SCOWLING HARLEQUIN'
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF 'THE SCOWLING HARLEQUIN'

CIRCA 1740, THE DECORATION POSSIBLY LATER

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF 'THE SCOWLING HARLEQUIN'
CIRCA 1740, THE DECORATION POSSIBLY LATER
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, wearing a puce feathered hat, a white ruff and a brightly coloured gilt-buttoned chequered suit, a red belt and red shoes with black rosettes, with a scowling expression and holding a pipe and a slap-stick, standing against a tree-stump with his body leaning slightly backwards, on a shaped mound base applied with a leaf (right arm broken through elbow and shoulder and restored, chip to stem of pipe, slap-stick with restoration and partially lacking, areas of slight wear)
7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm.) high
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Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.
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See Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture (2001), pp. 296-297 for a discussion of this figure and other examples. This figure is not recorded in Kändler's written records, and is traditionally thought to be based on an engraving by Joullain in Riccoboni's Histoire du théâtre italien pl. 2, but Chilton argues a more probable source is Joullain's engraving after Gillot of Arlequin pleurant from 'Les humeurs d'Arlequin'. See Chilton, ibid, p. 191, fig 308 for the Arlequin pleurant engraving and p. 192 for a colour illustration of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art example. For the Pauls-Eisenbeiss example, see I. Menzhausen, In Porzellan verzaubert, Die Figuren Johann Joachim Kändlers in Meissen aus der Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss Basel (Basel, 1993), no. 128.