CIRCA 1740, THE MODEL BY J.J. KÄNDLER

This figure was inspired by the engraving Habit de Pantalon Ancien by François Joullain, after Jacques Callot, which illustrated Luigi Riccoboni's Histoire du Thatre Italien published in Paris in 1728 (see page 8). It appears that Kändler reworked this figure from an original version in 1736 which is often described as Pantalone and Columbine, as it included Pantalone with an actress. See Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture, Singapore, 2001, p. 293, fig. 70 for a similar example in The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto.