CIRCA 1764-1765

细节

A KLOSTER VEILSDORF FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN
CIRCA 1764-1765
Modelled by Wenzel Neu, in a black mask and a skull cap, a chequered tunic and trousers and red shoes, holding a letter up to his right ear and a hat in his left hand, standing stepping forwards before a tree-stump on a circular mound base (letter a restored replacement)
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high

来源

Anonymous sale; sale Christie's, London, 9 July 2001, lot 253.
With Brian Haughton, London, from whom it was acquired on 22 June 2005.

出版

Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 124-125.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

荣誉呈献

Dominic Simpson

dsimpson@christies.com +44 (0)20 7752 3026

拍品专文

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.