HARLEQUIN WITH GOAT BAGPIPE Fürstenberg, circa 1755–60. Model by Simon Feilner.

HARLEQUIN WITH GOAT BAGPIPE

Fürstenberg, circa 1755–60. Model by Simon Feilner.
PorzellaPorcelain. The comedian, modelled after a Meissen model by Kändler, playing a type of bagpipe in the form of a goat. Wearing a purple pointed hat above his iron-red masked face, a diamond-patterned Harlequin costume and iron-red breeches. Blue "F" mark on the unglazed underside.
H 14.8 cm.
Minor restorations.

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

Literature:
- Siegfried Ducret: Fürstenberger Porzellan I, 1965, p. 208, Table 43.
- Reinhard Jansen: Commedia dell'arte, Berlin 2001, Exhibition catalogue No. 121.