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Lot Essay
This figure forms part of the larger Commedia dell'Arte series by J.W. Lanz. It was modelled after the Meissen figure of Pantalone from the Duke of Weissenfels series, which was based on the engraving Habit de Pantalon Ancien by François Joullain, after Jacques Callot, which illustrated Luigi Riccoboni's Histoire du Théatre Italien published in Paris in 1728 (see page 8). The Frankenthaler Formenverzeichnis (model-register) mentions Pantalon hat einen Manel an (Pantalone is wearing a cloak) as no. 558.
Three of four comparable examples are in museums; see Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan. Die Plastik, Munich, 2008, p. 223 and p. 222 (Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim); Herman Jedding, uropäisches Porzellan, Munich, 1971, p. 105, no. 275 (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg); Adalbert Klein, Europäisches Porzellan im Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf, 1966, p. 103, no. 200 and a fourth, from a private collection, is illustrated by Reinhard Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte, Fest der Komödianten, Keramische Kostbarkeiten aus den Museen der Welt, Stuttgart, 2001, p. 103, no. 89.
Three of four comparable examples are in museums; see Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan. Die Plastik, Munich, 2008, p. 223 and p. 222 (Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim); Herman Jedding, uropäisches Porzellan, Munich, 1971, p. 105, no. 275 (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg); Adalbert Klein, Europäisches Porzellan im Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf, 1966, p. 103, no. 200 and a fourth, from a private collection, is illustrated by Reinhard Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte, Fest der Komödianten, Keramische Kostbarkeiten aus den Museen der Welt, Stuttgart, 2001, p. 103, no. 89.