CIRCA 1745-49

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A VIENNA FIGURE OF PANTALONE
CIRCA 1745-49
Modelled striding forwards and turning to his left, with a long beard and holding a pince-nez to his eyes, wearing a black skull cap and a black vesta, an iron-red tunic and stockings, iron-red breeches with darker stripes and yellow slippers, on a rectangular white plinth base (restoration to beard, fingers of left hand, back, edge and hem of coat)
5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Henry Nyburg Esq., sale Sotheby's, London 22 March 1977, lot 168.
A Private Collection, Heidelberg, Germany.
With Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich, from whom it was acquired on 10 June 2004.

Literature

Elizabeth Sturm Bednarczyk (ed.) and Elizabeth Sladek, Ceremonies, Feasts, Costumes, Viennese Porcelain Figures in the Age of Maria Theresa, Vienna, 2007, p. 179, no. 281.
Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 158-159.

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Lot Essay

This figure is from a series of comedy figures produced on square flat bases, see Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture, Singapore, 2001, p. 271, nos. 4 and 5 for two characters which are probably from the same series. A similar example in the C.H. Fischer Collection, Dresden, was sold by Helbing, Munich, in May 1918, lot 651; and a white example, from the Goldblatt Collection was sold by Sotheby's London on 2 May 1956, lot 201.

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