The Ehlen Collection - Eine Rheinische Porzellansammlung

The Ehlen Collection - Eine Rheinische Porzellansammlung

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 62. 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.

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

No reserve

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.

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

Mainz, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Keramik aus Privatbesitz, 10 May-4 June 1979, bearing label inscribed I/113