AN ENAMELED GOLD FIGURINE OF A MERRY REVELER, PROBABLY GERMAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY |

with grinning face and raised cup, dancing on one foot, wearing mother-of-pearl waistcoat and diamond-set hat, his frockcoat enameled with sprigs on white ground, mounted on later gold ogee base applied with four putto masks

several chips to face and minor chips throughout, cup possibly replaced, missing something from his right hand. Probably had a bag on his back and may have had a baroque pearl stomach.
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The enameling of the frockcoat recalls the work of Johann Heinrich Kohler in Dresden, in particular the Spanish Dancer, inventory no. VI 102, described and illustrated in Dirk Syndram, Gems of the Green Vault, p.134.