A KLOSTER-VEILSDORF COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURE OF DOCTOR BOLOARDO

CIRCA 1765, MODELLED BY WENZEL NEU

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A KLOSTER-VEILSDORF COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURE OF DOCTOR BOLOARDO
Circa 1765, modelled by Wenzel Neu
Wearing a black mask, black suit and white ruff, his shoes with buckles, standing theatrically leaning forward and gesturing with his left hand, his hat in his right hand by his knee, before a tree stump on a circular mound base
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's New York, 17 November 1999, lot 421.

Lot Essay

The present figure is from a series of Commedia del'Arte characters modelled by Wenzel Neu in 1764-1765, taken from engravings by Johann Jacob Schubler and published by Jermias Wolffs Erben at Augsburg in 1729. Dr. Boloardo is taken from plate 2 of the Probst/Schubler graphite sources.

For a full discussion of the series, see Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm, Munich, 1953, pp. 230-236; Roda S. Soloweitschik, Thuringer Porzellan des 18-Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts in der sammlung der Ermitage, pp. 54-56; Keramos, July-October 1978, pl. 29.

For another example of the model with red bows on the shoes, see anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 14 May 1990, lot 36.

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