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拍品专文
The present figure is from a series of Commedia dell'Arte charaters produced at Kloster-Veilsdorf circa 1764-1765 and 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. The set was also produced in miniature. A miniature figure of the present model was sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 17 May 2005, lot 1.
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. The set was also produced in miniature. A miniature figure of the present model was sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 17 May 2005, lot 1.