FIGURE OF PANTALONE Göggingen, circa 1748–52, attributed to.

FIGURE OF PANTALONE

Göggingen, circa 1748–52, attributed to.
Faience decorated in high-temperature colors. The bearded comic character in a dynamic pose, about to draw his sword. Wearing a dark manganese-painted cap and coat with yellow lining, blue breeches and iron-red shoes. On a flat square base. Unmarked.
H 27 cm.
The tip of the sword is missing; the nose is slightly chipped.

Provenance:
- Siegfried Ducret Collection, Zurich.
- Acquired by inheritance in 1972 and added to the Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg.

Exhibited:
Reinhard Jansen (Hrsg.): Commedia dell'arte: Fest der Komödianten, Stuttgart 2001, Exhibition catalogue no. 291.

After an engraving by Johann Balthasar Probst (1663–1750), after Johann Jakob Schübler; cf. Jansen 2001, no. 291.
Comparable example: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Hackenbroch 1977, p. 131, no. 250, as Göggingen; object no. 64.101.384, as Brunswick).