A MEISSEN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURE OF SCARAMOUCHE FROM THE DUKE OF WEISSENFELS SERIES
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A MEISSEN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURE OF SCARAMOUCHE FROM THE DUKE OF WEISSENFELS SERIES

CIRCA 1744, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURE OF SCARAMOUCHE FROM THE DUKE OF WEISSENFELS SERIES
CIRCA 1744, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and P. Reinicke, standing before a tree-stump with his right foot forward and right arm raised in a dancing pose, wearing a black snood and a short cape, a turquoise tunic with a black belt, yellow breeches and red shoes with blue rosettes, on a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to hands, chipping to foliage, very minor flakes to black enamel)
5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm.) high
来源
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 December 2003, lot 42.
出版
Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 64-65.
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Reinicke's work book refers in June 1744 to '1 Scarmuz in Thon bossirt' (1 Scaramouche modelled in clay), see Meredith Chilton, 'The Duke of Weissenfels Series', in Reinhard Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten, Stuttgart, 2001, p. 18 for the reference. It is not certain which of the two versions of Scaramouche Reinicke is referring to because there are two different versions of this figure in the series (one of which has both arms raised) and both are modelled in dancing pose.

Scaramouche, a Neapolitian valet, was most famously played by the Italian actor Tiberio Fiorelli. He was notoriously fond of drink, women and intrigue and was not above picking pockets. He was a physically expressive and argumentative character and most cetainly a braggart.

The present model is after the engraving 'Habit de Scaramouche Napolitain' by François Joullain from Luigi Riccoboni's Histoire du Théâtre Italien, Paris, 1728.

For a similar example in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection (inv. no. 1975.1086.9) in the Historische Museum, Basel, see Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, London, 1972, Vol. I, p. 338, no. 17 and for the other version of the same character see p. 340, no. 19.