Details
The first modeled as ‘the ‘abbé’ standing barefoot on a pierced rocaille base; the second as Colombine dancing, wearing a diaper pattern skirt, on a rocaille base edged in puce
634 in. (17.1 cm.) and 514 in. (15.3 cm.) high, respectively
Provenance
Grossherzogliches Residenzschloss, Karlsruhe (Koelitz inv. no. 2343, the ‘abbé’).
Neues Schloss, Baden-Baden Richter inv. no. 2063 (the ‘abbé’). The Collection of the Markgrafen und Grosserhöge von Baden; Sotheby's, Baden-Baden, 5-21 October 1995, lot 1372 (the ‘abbé’).
German Private Collection 'H', near Düsseldorf (Columbine).
With Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz Kunsthandel, Munich, 26 January 2007 (Columbine).
Literature
Hofmann, 1911, pl. 53, no. 242, then Záhringer Museum, Karlsruhe (the ‘abbé’).
Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte - The Patricia and Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 92-93 (the ‘abbé’).
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