CIRCA 1764-1765

The present example is from the same series of ten Commedia dell'Arte figures which were modelled by Neu before his return to Fulda in 1767. Neu used another print from Probst's series of engravings for the creation of Harlequin, a detail of which is illustrated here. For a similar figure of Harlequin, see Ernst Kramer, 'Die Theaterfiguren von Closter Veilsdorf', Keramos No. 20, 1963, fig. 16, and for the whole engraving see fig. 14. 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. 289, no. 60, next to another figure of Harlequin, no. 61, which has plain un-chequered clothes.