A Meissen porcelain Commedia dell'arte figure - image-1

Lot 723 Dα

A Meissen porcelain Commedia dell'arte figure

Auction 1131 - overview Cologne
17.05.2019, 10:30 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 4.500 € - 6.000 €
Result: 9.300 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain Commedia dell'arte figure

From the series of commedia dell'arte figures made for Duke Johann Adolf II of Saxony-Weissenfels. The figure of Colombine depicted dancing on a grassy knoll with castanets in her left hand and a theatre mask in her right. Blue crossed swords mark to the back of the base. H 13.2 cm.
Modelled by Peter Reinicke, circa 1747.

Literature

A further figure of Colombine in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss-Stiftung in cat.: Commedia dell´Arte, Stuttgart 2001, no. 39.