A Meissen porcelain Commedia dell'Arte figure of Pantalone from The Duke of Weissenfels series, circa 1745 and a Meissen porcelain figure of dancing Columbine, circa 1750
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Description
Pantalone, modelled by J.J. Kändler and P. Reinicke, in typical standing pose, wearing a sweeping black robe and red costume, a dagger at his waist, Columbine, in dancing pose, wearing a puce-lined blue cloak, puce apron and yellow skirt, both on mound bases applied with flowers and leaves, crossed swords marks in underglaze blue to rear of bases
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Height 5 ¼ in; 13,3 cm
Pantalone:
With Winifred Williams, London;
An English Private Collection;
Albert Amor Ltd., London;
Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection, acquired from the above on 11 June 2008, until sold, Christie’s, London, 4 June 2013, lot 44;
Acquired at the above sale.
Pantalone:
Birte Abraham, The Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 64-65.
This figure of Pantalone is loosely based on the 1728 engraving 'Habit de Pentalon Ancien', by François Joullain after Jacques Callot. The model is recorded in Reinicke's work records in March 1744 "I Pandelon in Thon reparirt", [1 clay Pandelon modelled in clay], and in April 1744: '1 Pandelon, 7 1/2 Zol hoch, zu bohsiren angefangen', [1 Pantalone, 7 1/2 Zoll high, started to model], see Reinhard Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten, Stuttgart, 2001, p. 27. Kändler mentions in his reports in May 1744 that he corrected a figure of Pantalone, and further models from the series (Jansen, ibid, p. 28). A further example of this figure with this colouring was in the Collection of Giovanni and Gabriella Barilla, sold, Sotheby’s, London, 14 May 2012, lot 136.
A very similar figure of Columbine holding a mask is illustrated in Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture, exh. cat., New Haven, 2001, p. 315, cat. no. 120.
