A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF THE GREETING HARLEQUIN
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF THE GREETING HARLEQUIN
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF THE GREETING HARLEQUIN
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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF THE GREETING HARLEQUIN
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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF THE GREETING HARLEQUIN

CIRCA 1740

细节
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF THE GREETING HARLEQUIN
CIRCA 1740
Modelled by J.J. Kändler wearing a puce and yellow chequered tunic, leaning forwards holding his hat, seated on a tree-stump
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high
来源
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 November 1972, lot 45.
注意事项
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Isabelle Cartier-Stone
Isabelle Cartier-Stone Specialist

拍品专文


The underside inscribed in sepia ink 'A n (?)/N=11' which appears to be an old inventory number, which may date from the 18th or 19th centuries.

Kändler's Taxa records the model as 'A Harlequin with his hat making a very deep bow. 2 Thalers.'. Ingelore Menzhausen has suggested that the inspiration for this grussender Harlequin model is the engraving of the Expulsion of the Italian Comedians in 1697 after a lost painting by Watteau. Meredith Chilton, in Harlequin Unmasked, Singapore, 2001, pp. 124-126, discusses this specific bowing pose, which appears to reflect a movement performed by the Commedia dell'Arte actors. She also illustrates the example in the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, fig. 199, and quotes Pierre Rameau's description of the pose in his 1714 publication Maître à danser:
'In regard to the passing bow, this is done in the same manner as the bow forwards, save the body must be turned diagonally towards the persons you salute. That is, you turn half-sideways towards them, sliding forwards the foot that is nearest them, whether it be the right or the left, bending at the waist and inclining the head at the same time...'

Another example of this model was sold by Christie's, London, on the 11 December 2007, lot 130, and another example mounted as part of a mantel clock was sold by Christie's, London, on the 13 November 2019, lot 109.

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