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A rare Höchst figure of La Scaramouche from the Italian Comedy, circa 1752
18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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A rare Höchst figure of La Scaramouche from the Italian Comedy, circa 1752
Modelled by J.C.L. von Lücke, wearing a green hat with feathers, a purple-striped, short-sleeved jacket over a yellow bodice, white apron and green skirt, the gilt-edged, canted and flared rectangular base embellished in gilding, with a tree-stump support at the rear, 21cm high, wheel mark in iron-red to underside of base (minor damage and repair)
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Provenance:
The Emma Budge Collection, Hamburg, sold by Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 27-29 September 1937, lots 856;
Acquired in the above auction by the city of Mainz;
Restituted to the heirs of Emma Budge in 2013
Literature:
Mainzer Zeitschrift 1939, p. 103, pl. X,4;
Mittelrheinische Kunstwerke aus sechs Jahrhunderte, exhibition catalogue (1954), no. 35, ill. 24;
K.H. Esser, Höchster Fayencen und Porzellane (1962), ill. 10;
K.H. Esser/H. Reber, Höchster Fayencen und Porzellane (1964), p. 17, no. 18;
R. Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte (2001), p.148, no. 146
Exhibited:
Mainz, Landesmuseum, 1937-2013, inv. nos. 38/38;
Mainz, Landesmuseum, Mittelrheinische Kunstwerke aus sechs Jahrhunderten, 1954;
Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace, Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten, 14 July-14 October 2001
Probably based on the engraving of 'La Scaramouche', published by Johann Jacob Wolrab, Nuremberg, circa 1720 (illustrated in this catalogue). See footnote to following lot.
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