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Lot 86

A Meissen group of Scaramouche with a lady, circa 1741

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen group of Scaramouche with a lady, circa 1741

Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, Scaramouche wearing a black hat, diamond-patterned tunic and yellow breeches, embracing a lady holding a birdcage and wearing an iron-red bodice with black stomacher, green and white striped skirt and a white apron with puce foliate scrolls, a pug dog lying at their feet and a flowering tree to the side, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 17.8cm high (her left arm restuck through shoulder)

Footnotes

The group is recorded in Kaendler's Taxa:'Groupgen von 2 Figuren, bestehend, so einander umarmen, das Frauenzimmer aber hält in der lincken Hand einen Vogelgebauer' [group made up of 2 figures, embracing each other, the woman however holding a birdcage in her left arm].

Further examples are in the Porcelain Collections, Dresden (illustrated in R. Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten (2001), no. 18), the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel (illustrated in Dr Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century (1972), vol. I, pp. 284-287), the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (illustrated in Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked (2001), no. 82, fig. 298), the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, amongst others.

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