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A rare pair of Hochst figures of Pantaloone and Pantalone,…
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Sydney
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30-May-2023
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A rare pair of Hochst figures of Pantaloone and Pantalone, circa 1752, modelled by J.C.L. Von Lucke, each figure from the Italian Comedy wearing a fur-lined hat, long black coat and iron-red costume, Pantalone with a dagger at his waist and red shoes, his companion wearing pale yellow shoes, each on a canted rectangular pedestal moulded at the front with a recessed panel and gilt and with a tree-stump support at the rear, wheel marks in iron-red to side of bases, height 21.7 cm and 20.5 cm. Provenance: The Emma Budge collection, Hamburg, sold by Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 27-29 September 1937, lots 849 and 850, acquired in the above auction by the city of Mainz, Restituted to the heirs of Emma Budge in 2013, Bonham's London, fine European ceramics, 18 June 2014, lot 157, acquired from the above, Exhibitions: Mainz, Landesmuseum, 1937-2013, inv. Nos. 38/36 & 37, Mainz, Landesmuseum, Mittelrheinische Kunstwerke aus sechs Jahrhunderten, 1954, Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace, Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komodianten, 14 July-14 October 2001 (Pantaloone). Literature: Mainzer Zeitschrift 1939, p. 103, pl. X,1, Mittelrheinische Kunstwerke aus sechs Jahrhunderte, exhibition catalogue, 1954, no. 35, ill. 24, Esser, K.H., Hochster Fayencen und Porzellane, 1962, ill. 10, Esser, K.H./Reber, H., Hochster Fayencen und Porzellane, 1964, p. 17, no. 18, Jansen, R (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte, 2001, p.150 (Pantaloone). Other Notes: These models are attributed to the modeller Johann Christoph Ludwig von Lucke by Horst Reber in R. Jansen (ed.), 'The Commedia dell'arte at the Hochst Factory', op. Cit., p. 39-43 (p. 138-144 in the German language volume). Reber (page 41) suggests that Lucke, who was also active at the Meissen and Vienna factories, was influenced by the statues that stood in the garden of the Schonborn Palais in Vienna known through engravings of 1727 by Salomon Kleiner, These figures, are among the finest examples of these Hochst figures, and are distinguished by the exceptionally fine decoration and use of gilding on the pedestals, and their rarity suggests they were only produced by specific order in limited quantities.
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Ceramics: Meissen