Lot 6
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF MEZZETIN DANCING
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF MEZZETIN DANCING
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF MEZZETIN DANCING
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF MEZZETIN DANCING

CIRCA 1738-40

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF MEZZETIN DANCING
CIRCA 1738-40
Modelled by J.J. Kändler standing in a dramatic dancing pose with his right leg extended, his left leg bent and his hands balanced on his hips, wearing a turquoise cap, a white ruff, a puce jacket with gilt brocading and buttons, a red cloak draped over his shoulders, yellow breeches and red shoes with blue ribbons, before a brown and turquoise tree-stump applied with blue and red flowers (restoration to right leg and foot, both elbows, extremities of cloak, applied leaves and flowers, minor flaking to enamels, slight chipping to footrim)
7½ in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Kunstaukionhaus Schloss Ahlden, 8 May 2008, lot 1404.
Literature
Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 16-17.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

This figure is not mentioned in Kändler's work notes, or his Taxa and although it has been suggested that this figure was inspired by an anonymous engraving after Jean-Antoine Watteau, L'Indifférent,1 illustrated above, it would seem that Kändler has produced an entirely more dynamic and dramatic figure.

A similar example is in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, see Ulrich Pietsch, Die figürliche Meissner Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kändler. Bestandskatalog der Porzellansammlung Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Munich, 2006, p. 63, no. 87. See also the example in the Pauls Collection, Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, London, 1972, Vol. I, pp. 280-281, together with details of comparable examples.

1. See Birte Abraham, ibid., p. 16.

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