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Statuette en porcelaine de Frankenthal représentant une fille tenant un masque, circa 1782
A Frankenthal figure of a girl holding a mask, circa 1782
A Frankenthal figure of a girl holding a mask, circa 1782
31 October 2024, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue HocheSold for €640 inc. premium
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A Frankenthal figure of a girl holding a mask, circa 1782
Modelled by Franz Conrad Linck, wearing a yellow hat and ruff collar, white bodice and apron, and skirt decorated with purple dots and stripes, the grassy base modelled with gilt-edges scrollwork, 11.1cm high, crowned CT monogram and 82 in underglaze-blue (right hand restuck)
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This figure of a small female dancer holding a mask was modelled by Franz Conrad Linck as part of the series of thirty miniature figures representing the adult world in juvenile form ("Miniaturen aus der Erwachsenenwelt"). That same series features a miniature Columbine that closely resembles the present example, illustrated in Reinhard Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte. Fest der Komödianten, 2001, p. 111, cat. 104, with the exception of the mask in hand. The mask held by this figure does not have a black visor and is in fact identical to one held by an earlier Frankenthal figure of a young woman as an Allegory of Comedy modelled by Johann Frederick Lück, circa 1757-1759 (ill. Jansen, Commedia dell'Arte, p. 111, cat. 102), bolstering the hypothesis that this figure may be a miniaturised representation of Comedy from the Linck series.
For closer discussion of the series of thirty miniatures, see Maria Christiane Werhahn, Der kurpfalzische Hofbildhauer Franz Conrad Linck (1730-1793), 1999, pp. 116-134 and Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, "Reflexe der Commedia dell'arte in der Porzellanmanufaktur Frankenthal," in Jansen, Commedia dell'arte, pp. 98-115.
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