A CHELSEA PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURE OF PANTALONE

CIRCA 1750, RAISED RED ANCHOR MARK

Details

A CHELSEA PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURE OF PANTALONE
CIRCA 1750, RAISED RED ANCHOR MARK
Modeled standing with one hand behind his back, the base applied with flowers
4 ¼ in. (10.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Humphrey Cook Collection; Christie's, London, 3 February 1944, lot 35.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, MA, 1957, plate 21 (fig. 13).
P. Sassoon, Porcelain Through the Ages: Loan Exhibition in Aid of the Royal Northern Hospital, London, 1934, no. 318.
F. Stoner, Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures, Newport, 1955, pl. 24.

Exhibited

The Royal Northern Hospital at 25 Park Lane, "Porcelain Through the Ages" Loan Exhibition, 1934.

Lot Essay

This figure is inspired by a Meissen example modeled by Peter Reinicke and J.J. Kändler, circa 1744. Compare M. Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, New Haven, 2001, p. 198, fig. 315 for the Meissen model and fig. 316 for an earlier engraving of Pantalone's costume. Also see The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery, London, 1924, no. 341, which incorrectly identifies the model as Shylock.

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