A Meissen figure of a seated Harlequin circa 1745

modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, seated on a white cairn base playing bagpipes, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue.

His left hand fingertips are restored. There is a minuscule slice chip to the edge of his hat and the the tip of the florette on his hat has two minuscule chips. Otherwise in good condition.
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"The Harlequin Playing the Bagpipes" was first modelled by Kändler circa 1735-36 and many variations of the model followed through 1760. The present example is believed to be one of the earliest type. Similar examples are illustrated by Michael Newman, Die deutschen Porzellan-Manufakturen, Volume I, p. 114, pl. 114; and by Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer, pl. 51, no. 552.