Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN TEASING A MONKEY
Lot 109 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN TEASING A MONKEY

CIRCA 1740, PRESSNUMMER 45

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 49,250

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN TEASING A MONKEY
CIRCA 1740, PRESSNUMMER 45
Modelled by J.J. Kändler playing a pipe and pulling the tail of a monkey trapped beneath his legs, wearing a plumed wide-brimmed hat, white ruff, tunic with pink, yellow and black chequered pattern, red and white striped trousers applied with green bows and black shoes, on a rocky tree-stump mound base applied with yellow and blue flowers and green foliage (restoration to brim of hat, plumes, flowers, foliage and bows, small chip to left sleeve, end of pipe cracked and restored, monkey lacking majority of tail, cracked and restored through rear right leg)
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) high

Specialist note

See the similarly decorated example in the Frühes Meissener Porzellan, Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatesammlungen, Exhibition Catalogue, Hetjen-Museums, Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf, 1997, cat. no. 46, pp. 74-75, and also see the example formerly in the collection of Emma Budge, Hamburg, sale Paul Graupe, Berlin, 27-29 September 1937, lot 813 and pl. 126, and the example in the Klemperer Collection illustrated by Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer, Dresden, 1928, no. 560, pl. 53.