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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen (directorat de Marcolini) représentant L'Avocat, circa 1774-1814
A Marcolini Meissen figure of Avvocato, circa 1774-1814
A Marcolini Meissen figure of Avvocato, circa 1774-1814
31 October 2024, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€4,000 - €6,000
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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen (directorat de Marcolini) représentant L'Avocat, circa 1774-1814
A Marcolini Meissen figure of Avvocato, circa 1774-1814
A Marcolini Meissen figure of Avvocato, circa 1774-1814
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, holding a book in his right hand, wearing a long wig with a pen behind his right ear, a blue mask, long white coat, blue-trimmed black jacket and breeches and black shoes, on a square plinth with classical floral scrollwork border heightened in gilding, 17.5cm high, crossed swords mark (with one incised cancellation mark), asterisk and II in underglaze-blue to rear edge of base, incised model number D.37. to rear edge of base (both hands and book restored)
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Literature:
Siemen, Wilhelm (ed.), Von den Ursprüngen des europäischen Porzellans bis zum Art Déco, 2010, p. 102, cat. 61
Exhibited:
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 a.d. Eger, Porzellanikon - Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, 2018-2023
The third and final series of Italian comedy figures were modelled by Kaendler between 1771 until shortly before his death in 1775. In keeping with the neoclassical style of the period, the fourteen figures that comprise this series are more crisply modelled and painted than their earlier predecessors and feature a squared base with scrolled gilding.
A very similar example illustrated in Sabine and Thomas Bergmann, Meissen Figures, vol. II, 2014, p. 253, cat. 502.
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