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Groupe en porcelaine de Meissen représentant Scaramouche embrassant une femme avec cage à oiseaux, circa 1741
A Meissen group of Scaramouche embracing a lady with birdcage, circa 1741
A Meissen group of Scaramouche embracing a lady with birdcage, circa 1741
31 October 2024, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€12,000 - €18,000
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Groupe en porcelaine de Meissen représentant Scaramouche embrassant une femme avec cage à oiseaux, circa 1741
A Meissen group of Scaramouche embracing a lady with birdcage, circa 1741
A Meissen group of Scaramouche embracing a lady with birdcage, circa 1741
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, Scaramouche wearing a black hat, turquoise tunic with ruff collar and sleeves and red cuffs, decorated with playing cards, purple breeches with blue rosettes, and yellow shoes with red bows, the lady holding a birdcage containing a dove, wearing a yellow bodice with red bow at the back, grey dress with purple and gilt flowers, white apron with iron-red pattern, and red shoes with yellow bows, the base applied with leaves and flowers and with a fruiting leafy tree-stump to one side, 17.5cm high, faint traces of crossed swords mark in blue (minor chips)
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Provenance:
Dr. Georg Adolf Remé Collection, Hamburg, sold at Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 7-9 April 1938, lot 139
Literature:
Rafael, Johannes, "Zur 'Taxa Kaendler'," Keramos 203/204 (2009): 48 (illustrated)
Exhibited:
Hohenberg an der Eger, Porzellanikon - Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, 2018-2023
Kaendler's Taxa records: "1. Groupgen von 2. Figurend bestehend, so einander urmarmen, das Frauemzimmer aber hält in der lincken Hand einen Vogelgebauer" [1 group consisting of 42 figures embracing each other, the female figure, though, holding a bird cage in her left hand].
The depiction may be based on an engraving after the painting La Cage by Nicolas Lancret of around 1738, now in the Louvre, Paris.
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