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Statuette en porcelaine de Höchst représentant Scaramouche, circa 1752
A Höchst figure of Scaramouche from the Commedia dell'Arte, circa 1752
A Höchst figure of Scaramouche from the Commedia dell'Arte, circa 1752
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A Höchst figure of Scaramouche from the Commedia dell'Arte, circa 1752
Modelled by Johann Christoph Ludwig von Lücke, standing on a pedestal with a tree-stump support at the rear, holding a money bag in each hand, wearing a black costume with white ruff collar and gilt studded belt, the pedestal moulded with a recessed panel at the front with a shell motif embellished in gilding, gilt borders, 21cm high, wheel mark in iron-red (both hands restuck)
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Literature:
Reber, Horst, Höchster Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz, 1984, p. 31;
Siemen, Wilhelm (ed.), Von den Ursprüngen des europäischen Porzellans bis zum Art Déco, 2010, p. 101, cat. 60
Exhibited:
Höchst, Jahrhunderthalle, Höchster Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz, 9 December 1984 to 9 January 1985;
Selb and Hohenberg a.d. Eger, Porzellanikon - Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, Königstraum und Massenware. 300 Jahr europäisches Porzellan, 24 April to 2 November 2010;
Hohenberg an der Eger, Porzellanikon - Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, 2018-2023
Scaramouche's dancing pose, pedestal, and strident sense of movement are presaged in an earlier ivory statue by the same modeller signed "ICL Lück" (Johann Christoph Ludwig von Lücke) from 1729-30, in the Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden, inv. VI 236.
Comparable examples can be found in the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, inv. G83.1.884, and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 50.211.212. Another is in the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford (published in Jansen, Commedia dell'Arte: Fest der Komödianten, cat. 148).
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