Modeled as a woman in the guise of Pantalone, wearing a pearl necklace and ermine-lined cap, a dagger tucked into her waistband
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

A Private Collection, Germany.
With Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich, from whom it was acquired on 5 March 2005.
The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection, Tennessee.

R. Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte, Fest der Komödianten, Keramische Kostbarkeiten aus den Museen der Welt, Stuttgart, 2001, p. 123, no. 119.
B. Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 102-103.

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Lot Essay

For his female figure of Pantalone, Simon Feilner followed the slightly earlier model by Johann Christoph Ludwig von Lücke at Höchst,¹and the later Würzburg model of this subject (of circa 1775-1780) also seems to derive from Lücke's original.²For the example from the Pfleuger Collection (with applied flowers to the base), see H. Morley-Fletcher, Early European Porcelain and Faience, as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger, London, 1993, Vol. I, pp. 140-141, and also see S. Ducret, Fürstenberger Porzellan, Brunswick, 1965, Vol. I, pl. 34. A similar example in the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection was sold Christie's, New York, 10 May 2018, lot 736.

1. See R. Jansen (ed.), ibid., 2001, p. 150, no. 149.
2. See R. Jansen (ed.), ibid., 2001, p. 227, no. 236.