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Lot 750 Dα

A Meissen porcelain figure of Beltrame

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain figure of Beltrame

From the series of commedia dell'arte figures made for Duke Johann Adolf II of Saxony-Weißenfels. Unglazed base with faint blue crossed swords mark to the back of the sockle. The extended hand with the letter and the extended foot restored, the back of the sockle retouched. H 13 cm.
Model by Peter Reinicke, presumably with Johann Joachim Kaendler, ca. 1744.

Johann Joachim Kaendler created a large table centrepiece for Duke Johann Adolf II of Saxony-Weißenfels (1685 - 1745) in 1744. In his workshop records he refers to the Duke as "Ihro Durchl. dem Hertzog Von Weißen Fels". This figure may have been created in connection to this series. It may be one of the figures mentioned in the unspecific entry in Kaendler's workshop records on 9th July 1744 as “also several figures from the Italian comedy amended and brought to a useable standard” (from the German, Pietsch, Leipzig 2002, p. 104).

Literature

See also four further examples:
1. from the Fischer collection sold by Heberle (H. Lempertz´ Söhne), Cologne 1906, lot 290.
2. Sold in Lempertz auction 667 on 22nd May 1992, lot 698.
3. Kunze-Köllensperger, Coll. of Franz Burda, no. 101.
4. Sold in Lempertz auction 888 on 18th May 2006, lot 24.