A HÖCHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ISABELLA'S MAID FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
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A HÖCHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ISABELLA'S MAID FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE

CIRCA 1752

Closed16 December 2021

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A HÖCHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ISABELLA'S MAID FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
CIRCA 1752
Almost certainly modelled by J.C.L. von Lücke, wearing, wearing a tasselled red cap, white ruff, yellow bodice, and floral skirt, standing on a gilt-edged plinth base before a tree stump
8 7⁄8 in. (22.7cm.) high

Specialist note


The Otto Blohm Collection had two figures of Isabella’s Maid, one is illustrated by Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm, Munich, 1953, pl. 46, no. 163, and the other, which later passed into the Pflueger Collection, is unillustrated but noted on p. 131, no. 164. The Pflueger example is illustrated by H. Reber in H. Morley-Fletcher, Early European Porcelain & Faience as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger, London, 1993, Vol. I, p. 122.