A MEISSEN FIGURE OF CAPITANO SPAVENTO

CIRCA 1744, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, MODELLED BY P. REINICKE AND J.J. KNDLER

Details

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF CAPITANO SPAVENTO
Circa 1744, blue crossed swords mark, modelled by P. Reinicke and J.J. Kndler
In black hat, pink coat, gilt waistcoat painted with indianische Blumen and blue breeches, modelled standing with one hand behind his back, the other resting on his hip above his sword, on a tree-stump mound base applied with flowers
5in. (14cm.) high

Provenance

J.E.; Paul Cassirier & Hugo Helbing, Berlin, 5 December 1929, pl. VI, no. 91

Lot Essay

See an anon. sale; Christie's, London, 22 June 1992, lot 217 and The Jrge Nelte Collection of Meissen Porcelain, Christie's London, 12 October 1995, lot 32 for a similar figures from the Commedia Dell'Arte figures from the Duke of Weissenfels series. Also see Rainer Rckert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 962 for a similar example and the Joullain engraving for Riccoboni appearing in Histoire du Thtre italien published in Paris, 1727.