Lot 773 D α

A Meissen porcelain figure of Harlequin with bagpipes

Auction 1253 - overview Cologne
15.11.2024, 14:00 - Porcelain
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €

A Meissen porcelain figure of Harlequin with bagpipes

Sitting cross-legged on an earth mound base playing the bagpipes. He wears a mi-parti jacket with a playing card pattern and purple scale pattern on the arms. Unglazed base, blue crossed swords mark on the reverse. Hat, hand, mouthpiece and tip of the foot restored, the trumpet amended. H 12.9 cm.
Modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1736, produced and decorated soon after.

Ulrich Pietsch published Kaendler's workshop records from July 1736, which mention: ‘A harlequin with bagpipes sitting down, modified and made fit for moulding.’ (Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706 - 1775, Leipzig 2002, p. 40)

Provenance

The Heinrich Collection.

Literature

Cf. an identical figure in the SKD porcelain collection (inv. no. PE 153), from the Gustav von Klemperer collection, in Pietsch, Die figürliche Meißener Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kaendler, Munich 2006, no. 91.

S.a. v. Wallwitz (ed.), Celebrating Kaendler 1706 - 1775 Meissen Porcelain Sculpture, Munich 2006, p. 58 ff.

See also Brattig (ed.), Meissen Barockes Porzellan, Stuttgart-Cologne 2010, no. 33 f.