Lot Details
Lot 70
Longton Hall Porcelain Commedia dell'Arte Figure of a Dancing Harlequin
Circa 1752, unmarked
Derived from the Meissen model by Peter Reinicke, made for Johann Adolph II, Duke of Weissenfels, modeled dancing and gesturing with right hand raised, a slapstick in his left hand tucked beneath a yellow-lined puce cloak, wearing a high conical black hat, white frill, flowered gilt enriched tunic, and iron-red breeches with florets at the knee, leaning against a brightly colored tree-stump support, the circular mound base painted with flowers matching those on his jacket, the concave base unglazed.
Height 4 3/4 inches.
Provenance:
A.E. Hutton Collection.
Sotheby's, London, 31 March 1944, lot 108.
James A. MacHarg, Esq.
Sotheby's, London, 14 May 1974.
No other example of this model could be found. For two Meissen examples by P. Reinicki and an enameled saltglazed stoneware model in a similar attitude, see the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, object nos. G83.1.935, G83.1.923, G83.1.963. Also see the Glaisher collection for a white saltglazed stoneware example at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, object no. C.809-1928, http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76132.
C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
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