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After a Meissen original, modelled as a smiling bearded gentleman, standing with his pale blue hat held in his left hand, wearing a yellow suit and a black cape, a pouch and a dagger at his waist, his matching shoes in black with yellow bows, the irregular mound base applied with leaves and flowers, 12.3cm high, raised anchor mark
Footnotes
Provenance
Peter Bradshaw Collection, Bonhams, 24 January 2007, lot 3
Literature
Bradshaw, Peter, 18th Century English Porcelain Figures, col. pl.A;
White, Mary, People at the Whites' House, Vol.5, 2024, p.84
The original Meissen version of this figure was created as by Reinicke part of the Duke of Weissenfels series, after the engraving 'Habit de Scapin' by Jouillain, published in Riccoboni's Histoire du Théâtre Italien in Paris in 1728. Scapin was the mischievous valet. A Meissen example was probably one of those lent to Sir Everard Fawkener for Chelsea to make copies by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British Envoy to the Saxon Court in Dresden. For a Longton Hall figure of Pantalone from the same series, see lot 148 in this sale.