A Meissen porcelain figure of harlequin dancing - image-1

Lot 1387 Dα

A Meissen porcelain figure of harlequin dancing

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain figure of harlequin dancing

From the commedia dell'arte series made for Duke Johann Adolf II of Saxony-Weißenfels. Harlequin is shown dancing on a base encrusted with coloured flowers, holding a slapstick under his arm and wearing a jacket with a playing card pattern, a floral coat and a sea green hat. Smoothed base, blue crossed swords mark to the back of the plinth. Minor chips to the foliage, the hat brim, the slapstick, the thumb restored, gilding retouched. H 14 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, presumably July 1744, and Peter Reinicke, produced soon after.

Literature

Cf. Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten. Keramische Kostbarkeiten aus den Museen der Welt, Stuttgart-Düsseldorf 2001, cat. no. 37.
See also Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodeurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706 - 1775, Leipzig 2002, p. 104, entry under July 1744, "9. Also numerous figures from the Italian comedy, corrected and brought into usable condition."