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Lot 1388 Dα

A Meissen porcelain figure of Pantalone

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 3.500 € - 4.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain figure of Pantalone

From the series of commedia dell'arte figures made for Duke Johann Adolph II of Saxony-Weisenfels. A figure of the bearded old man leaning forward on an oval base. He wears a simple coat and a black cap, yellow shoes and a gold and purple jacket. Blue crossed swords mark to the back of the base. A retouch to the cloak, the tip of the beard restored, tip of the dagger broken off. H 13.8 cm.
Modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler in March 1744, and Peter Reinicke, produced in the period.

Literature

This figure together with that of Colombine as a group in Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810, Munich 1966, cat. no. 863.
The same model in Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten. Keramische Kostbarkeiten aus den Museen der Welt, Stuttgart-Düsseldorf 2001, cat. no. 42.
Cf. Brattig (ed.), Meissen. Barockes Porzellan, Stuttgart-Cologne 2010, cat. no. 21.
Cf. also Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706 - 1775, Leipzig 2002, p. 101, entry for March 1744, sheet 87 r- 88 r: "5. Eine Pantaleons Fügur gehöriger Maßen zerschnitten und zum abformen und Ausarbeitung in der Massa befördert."