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Statuette en porcelaine de Kloster Veilsdorf représentant Arlequin, circa 1770
A Kloster Veilsdorf figure of Harlequin, circa 1770
A Kloster Veilsdorf figure of Harlequin, circa 1770
31 October 2024, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€3,500 - €4,500
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Statuette en porcelaine de Kloster Veilsdorf représentant Arlequin, circa 1770
A Kloster Veilsdorf figure of Harlequin, circa 1770
A Kloster Veilsdorf figure of Harlequin, circa 1770
Modelled by Wenzel Neu, holding a letter in his right hand and his hat in the left, wearing a black skullcap and mask, jacket and trousers with brightly-coloured chevron pattern, and red shoes, 14.8cm high (letter restored)
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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 9 April 1979, lot 136;
Private Collection, Switzerland, sold at Christie's London, 11 December 2007, lot 134;
Purchased in the above sale
One of a series of ten Italian Comedy figures modelled in 1764-65 after a series of engravings by Johann Balthasar Probst after drawings by Johann Jacob Schübler, published in Augsburg in 1729. The figure of Harlequin is based on plate 5 of the series: "Arlechin, das lebendige Gemählde und lächrl. Cupido." For a discussion of the series, see Ralf-Jürgen Sattler, "'Theater Figuren' von Closter Veilsdorf," in Reinard Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten, 2001, pp. 86-90, and cat. 75 for a similar figure of Harlequin in the Angermuseum, Erfurt.
A figure of this type was in the Otto Blohm collection (see Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm, 1953, nos. 345-7 and pl. 94); another is in the British Museum, inv. 1923,0314.4.CR.
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