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A BERLIN GREEN-GROUND CABINET-PLATE
Lot 159PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PATRICIA HART

A BERLIN GREEN-GROUND CABINET-PLATE

CIRCA 1810, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, INCISED 16/III, PAINTER'S DARK-GREEN LOZENGE MARK

Fermé28 November 2012

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A BERLIN GREEN-GROUND CABINET-PLATE
CIRCA 1810, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, INCISED 16/III, PAINTER'S DARK-GREEN LOZENGE MARK
Painted with itinerant Commedia dell'Arte actors performing on an open-air make-shift stage, with Scaramouche on the stage explaining the characters before Harlequin peeping out of the curtains behind, Mezzetin seated playing a guitar on the bench in front, a monkey perched on the scenery and a dog lurking beneath the stage, before an audience of locals and distant ruins, within a gilt-edged panel on a gold ground burnished with foliage scrolls, the border with a band of stiff-leaves within a matt-green band with stylised gilt flowers and foliage, gilt line rim (very minor scratching and wear to gilt ground)
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) diam.

With Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich, from whom it was acquired on 19 March 1994.

Note du spécialiste

This scene is after an engraving after the painting by the Dutch painter Karel Dujardin (1626-1678) 'Landscape with Italian comedians and their audience (The charlatan)', 1657, Musée du Louvre, Paris, illustrated in Jennifer M. Kilian, The paintings of Karel Du Jardin 1626-1678, Catalogue Raisonnée, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, PA, 2005, p. 296, pl. 7.

It appears that depictions of the Commedia dell'Arte on Berlin porcelain are very rare.