CIRCA 1742, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF 'HANSWURST MIT BRILLE'
CIRCA 1742, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, wearing a black hat with a blue ribbon, a white ruff, a gilt-buttoned mauve jacket, yellow breeches and black shoes with blue rosettes, holding a pince-nez to his grinning face in a comic pose with his tongue sticking out, taking snuff from a snuff-box at his waist, his body tilted backwards on his right leg, his left leg raised, supported by a tree-stump on a shaped mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (restoration to snuff-box and right little finger, left arm probably a porcelain replacement, slight wear to enamels and some areas of slight re-touching to gilding)
7 1/16 in. (18 cm.) high

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

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Lot Essay

This figure is recorded in Kändler's Taxa as '1 Arlequin, so statt des HosenKnoppffs eine Tabatiere hat, und Schnupff Tabacc herausnimmt, in der linken Hand eine Brille hat'. See Meredith Chilton, op. cit. (2001), p. 190 for the Gardiner Museum example, and p. 299, cat. no. 81, where she lists other examples. For the Pauls-Eisenbeiss example, see I. Menzhausen, op. cit. (Basel, 1993), no. 129.

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