CIRCA 1740, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN HOLDING A PASSGLASS
CIRCA 1740, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Modeled mid-chug, wearing a tricorn hat and holding a mandolin under his right arm, standing before a tree-stump on a mound base
7 5/8 in. high

Provenance

The Nyffeler Collection sale; Christie's, London, 9 June 1986, lot 39.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 December 1994, lot 126.

Exhibited

Zürich, Kunsthaus, Schönheit des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1955, no. P10.

Lot Essay

Another example of this rare model from the Nellie Ionides Collection was sold Christie's, London, 6 December 2004, lot 438. Also see the example from the Untermyer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Y. Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, 1956, pl. 40, figure 62.

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