Lot 99 A rare Cozzi figure figure of a Judge, modelled as a dwarf, circa 1770

A rare Cozzi figure figure of a Judge, modelled as a dwarf, circa 1770

GBP 700

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Modelled standing on a square flat base, holding a scroll, wearing a magistrate's wig and a heavy book under his left arm, 8.2cm high,
Footnotes
Provenance
With E&H Manners, 2007
Literature
White, Mary, People at the Whites' House, Vol.5, 2024, p.310
This figure appears again in a larger group, likely depicting justice, attributed by Andreina d'Agliano to Cozzi rather than Doccia, which is part of a private European collection. The group is published by the author in the exhibition catalogue Geminiano Cozzi e le sue porcellane, 2016, pp.375. Several single dwarves are illustrated under cat. nos. 1-19 - a series to which this figure also likely belonged.
The series of Nani or dwarves made by the Cozzi factory were in part modelled after the Callotto Resucitato, re-edited by Stamperia Remondini, and based on the Eingerichtes Zwergen Cabinet by Martin Engelbrecht (1710-15). d'Agliano (op.cit., p.373) notes that the Nani modelled by Geminiano Cozzi were less grotesque, and more illustrative in their clothing and pursuits of daily life.
Other factories, including Doccia, created similar figures. But the figure of a judge is rare. Another dwarf with similarities to this figure and identified by Angela Caròla Perrotti as the Italian statesman and reformer Bernardo Tanucci (1698-1783) was created at the Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea. One such figure was sold in these rooms, 7 December 2017, lot 42.
Condition is not specified in the lot cataloguing. Please request a condition report.