CIRCA 1756-59, INCISED -.

Details

A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN
CIRCA 1756-59, INCISED -.
Modelled by J.W. Lanz, in a green hat, a mask with a curly moustache, a pale-yellow tunic and trousers and white shoes, standing contraposto, holding his hat in his left hand and a baton in his right hand behind his back, before a tree-stump on a mound base moulded with scrolls enriched in purple (cracked and restored through top of tree-stump and left ankle, slapstick a restored replacement, minor chipping)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high

Provenance

A Private Collection, Germany.
With Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich, from whom it was acquired on 25 January 2007.

Literature

Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 80-81.

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Lot Essay

This figure appears to be from the same series as the previous lot, and Pierrot (lot 45). The pose of the figure is derived from an engraving Pour garder l'honeur d'une belle Veillez et la nuit et le jour by Charles Nicholas Cochin after a lost painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau (illustrated on page 9). The figure has the same pose (in reverse) as Harlequin standing to the left of Pierrot in the engraving.

A similar figure in the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, is illustrated by Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture, Singapore, 2001, p. 284, no. 47, where the other known examples are listed.

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