A porcelain figure 'Harlequin with bagpipe'
Johann Joachim Kaendler (Fischbach/Sachsen 1706 - Meißen 1775)
Lot-No. 297
Meissen, around 1740-45. The Kaendler-design from 1736 has been revised by J. F. Eberlein around 1740. Dressed in Harlequin's costume and with a ironred beaked hat, sitting on a rock with sculptural flowers. In his hands a bagpipe. H. 13,5 cm. - Literature: See a nearly identical piece by A. von Wallwitz, Celebrating Kaendler, München 2006, p. 58-61. - German porcelain modeller and sculptor, taught by the sculptor Thomae in Dresden, whose baroque influence is especially visible in his animal figures, in 1731 appointed court sculptor by August the Strong, at the same time beginning his work for porcelain manufacture Meissen, which he directs for many years, his works are among the highlights of early European porcelain.
Johann Joachim Kaendler: A porcelain figure 'Harlequin with bagpipe'
Johann Joachim Kaendler (Fischbach/Sachsen 1706 - Meißen 1775)
A porcelain figure 'Harlequin with bagpipe'
Lot-No. 297
Meissen, around 1740-45. The Kaendler-design from 1736 has been revised by J. F. Eberlein around 1740. Dressed in Harlequin's costume and with a ironred beaked hat, sitting on a rock with sculptural flowers. In his hands a bagpipe. H. 13,5 cm. - Literature: See a nearly identical piece by A. von Wallwitz, Celebrating Kaendler, München 2006, p. 58-61. - German porcelain modeller and sculptor, taught by the sculptor Thomae in Dresden, whose baroque influence is especially visible in his animal figures, in 1731 appointed court sculptor by August the Strong, at the same time beginning his work for porcelain manufacture Meissen, which he directs for many years, his works are among the highlights of early European porcelain.