A MEISSEN GROUP OF PANTALONE AND COLUMBINE CIRCA 1740

A MEISSEN GROUP OF PANTALONE AND COLUMBINE CIRCA 1740

modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler, Columbine seated holding a mask under her right arm, wearing a turquoise-lined salmon-pink cloak and a red skirt painted with black-stemmed gilt flowers and Pantalone in a grey-lined puce cloak, a green waistcoat incised with scrolls and yellow breeches, each embellished in gilding, on a small flower-encrusted base, traces of crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue.
Height: 6⅝ in.
16.8 cm

Condition Report:
The lower part of her cloak across the back and up the left hand edge restored. Her foot restored. Small chip to back edge of base under his cloak. Typical small chips, losses and restorations to applied flowers and leaves on base. Her hair bow restored. Minor restoration to beard. Minor flaking to green enamel on his waistcoat.

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Provenance:
Hermine Feist-Wollheim, Berlin

Hans and Ernst Feist, Berlin (sons of the above), by inheritance in 1933

Dresdner Bank, acquired, August 10, 1935

Schlossmuseum (now the Kunstgewerbemuseum), Berlin, acquired from above August 15, 1935

Auction, Julius Böhler, Munich, June 1-2, 1937, ‘Kunstwerke aus dem besitz der Staatlichen Museen Berlin’, lot 477, pl. 34 (designated Früher Sammlung Feist-Berlin)

Dr Georg Adolf Remé, Hamburg

Auction Hans W Lange, Berlin, April 7-9, 1938, ‘Antiquitäten-Sammlung Dr. R Hamburg [and others]’, lot 741, pl. 61 (designated from the collection of Dr R)

Property of European Collector, Christie's London, October 5, 1981, lot 191

Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich