CIRCA 1745

Details

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF COLUMBINE PLAYING THE HURDY-GURDY
CIRCA 1745
Modelled by J.F. Eberlein seated on rockwork playing a hurdy-gurdy, wearing a wide-brimmed red hat, a pink and black bodice, a yellow apron and a white skirt, on a grass-moulded mound base (restoration to hat, cracked through left arm at elbow and restored, both hands restored, minute chip to apron)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high

Provenance

Bloch-Bauer/Pick Collection, Vienna.
Leopold and Antoinette Bloch-Bauer (later Bentley), Vancouver.
With C. Bednarczyk, Vienna, from whom it was acquired on 3 June 2003.

Literature

Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 30-31.

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Lot Essay

This figure appears to be after an earlier model by Kändler as his Taxa of 1740-48 includes '1 sizend Tyroler Mägdgen auf der Leyer spielend. 2 Thlr. 12 g.' (1 seated Tyrolean girl playing the hurdy-gurdy, 2 Thlr. 12 g.), see Ingelore Menzhausen, In Porzellan verzaubert, Die Figuren Johann Joachim Kändlers in Meissen aus der Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss Basel, Basel, 1993, p. 195.

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