Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A DWARF, 'MONSIEUR PIPEROUK' THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1725, THE DECORATION PROBABLY LATER
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October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A DWARF, 'MONSIEUR PIPEROUK' THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1725, THE DECORATION PROBABLY LATER
modeled standing on a canted base, wearing a pointed hat, a robe painted with puce flowers and tied with an iron-red band and yellow shoes, embellished in gilding, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue.
Height: 3⅞ in.
10 cm
Sotheby's London, March 15, 1983, lot 85
Lempertz, Cologne, November 20, 1987, lot 724
Lempertz, Cologne, November 19, 2004, lot 134
Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich, November 2005
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 44, p. 256, illus.
A variation of this figure of similar height but standing on a quatrefoil base and decorated in gilding and black enamel was in the Collection of Otto and Magdalena Blohm, sold Sotheby's London, July 5, 1960, lot 148, and is illustrated in Friedrich H. Hofmann, Das Porzellan der Europaischen Manufakturen im 18 Jahrunderts, Berlin, 1932, p. 317. This model has previously been cataloged as adapted from plate 27 of Il Callotto resuscitato, oder, Neü eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet, of circa 1715, titled 'Monsieur Piperouk, Directeur der grossen Companie Tabak Negotianten in Virginien und Brasilien'. Sotheby’s Scientific Research department used non-invasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was detected.