A Very Rare Meissen Commedia dell-arte Figure Group of Columbine and Pantalone, Circa 1736 | Eine sehr seltene Meissen Commedia dell-arte Figurengruppe von Columbine und Pantalone, um 1736
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Lot Closed
March 6, 03:02 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 26,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, Columbine seated holding a fan under her right arm, wearing a red bodice and black skirt painted with flowers, the caped Pantalone standing and leaning towards her, with a grey-lined red cloak, brown waistcoat and turquoise breeches, with gilt-highlights, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue
Height 6 1/4 in.
16 cm.
Gustav and Charlotte von Klemperer, Dresden;
By descent to their sons Viktor, Herbert and Ralph von Klemperer (1927);
Confiscated from the above by the Staatspolizeileitstelle Dresden at the Klemperer-Villa on Tiergartenstraße, Dresden in December 1938;
Deposited with the ‘Johanneum’, Staatliche Porzellsammlung, Augustusstrasse;
Stored by the Staatliche Porzellangalerie Dresden at Schloß Rammenau from January 1943;
Moved to Schloß Rotschönberg on the 16th March 1945, where subsequently lost between 1945 and 1946;
Ehlen collection, Germany
This lot is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the consignor and the heirs of Gustav and Charlotte von Klemperer.
Mainz, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Keramik aus Privatbesitz, 10 May-4 June 1979, bearing label inscribed I/113
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer, Dresden, Germany, 1928, p. 150, cat no. 568, taf. 60 (incorrectly numbered as 569 in illustration)
Horst Reber, Eine Rheinische Porzellan-Sammlung, Darmstadt, 2006, vol. I, pp. 146-47