Details
Each modelled standing, he with a mask in one hand, she holding the corners of her apron, each on a pierced scroll-moulded base
9 in. (23 cm.) high, Pierrot
Provenance
Sold Sotheby's London 15 April 1997, lot 77 (Pierrot).
With Angela von Wallwitz, according to paper labels.
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For a figure of Perriot in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, see Ulrich Pietsch, Meiβner Porzellanplastick von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kaendler, Munich, 2006, pp. 74-75, cat. no. 103. Pietsch illustrates George Friedrich Schmidt's engraving titled 'Le Theatre Italien', after Nicolas Lancret's painting, which depicts Pierrot standing before a troupe of commedia dell'arte characters in a pose similar to the present model.

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