A MEISSEN FIGURE OF CAPITANO SPAVENTO FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE SERIES MADE FOR THE DUKE OF WEISSENFELS

CIRCA 1744, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE

细节

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF CAPITANO SPAVENTO FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE SERIES MADE FOR THE DUKE OF WEISSENFELS
Circa 1744, blue crossed swords mark to back of base
Modelled by J.J. Kandler and P. Reinicke, wearing a gilt-edged black tricorn hat, gilt-edged white coat, mauve waistcoat and yellow breeches, a gilt sword suspended at his left side, standing in a flamboyant pose with his right arm behind his back and his left hand resting on his hip, before a tree stump on a shaped circular mound base applied with a flower and foliage
5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) high

来源

The Princes Reuss, J.L. Schloss Osterstein; Christie's, London, 17 April 2000, lot 127.

拍品专文

Cf. Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (1966), p. 234, no. 962 and the similar examples sold in these Rooms on 12th October 1995, lot 32 and by Christie's Geneva on 11th May 1981, lot 95.

This model is derived from Jouillain's engraving in Riccoboni's Histoire de la Comedie Italienne, published in Paris in 1727. For a similar model and the engraved source see Siegfried Ducret, op. cit. (1973), p. 183, nos. 318 and 320.