SEVEN FIGURINS FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE

Description:

Closter Veilsdorf, circa 1765/70
H. 14/16 cm
2 x Scaramuz (one later model), Capitano, Colombine, Pantalone, Harlequin, Tarantaglia. Modelled by Wenzel Neu around 1764/65, with pseudo-sword mark in blue-green on the glaze (Colombine and Harlequin). All figures with stronger, older restorations, some losses and chipped.
Jan Ahlers Collection
Listed in the design inventory before 1766: Nay: theatre figure Scaramuza, theatre figure Doctor Poloward, theatre figure Capitaine Rodomond, theatre figure Pantaleon, theatre figure Arlequin. The Veilsdorf figures of the Italian Comedy were created after engravings by Joh. Balthasar Probst (after drawings by Joh. Jacob Schübler), which were published in Augsburg in 1729. Other manufactories also worked according to these models. The series was produced in smaller sizes by Neu's students from 1768 onwards. Sattler, 1993, nos. 11-18, Kramer, E. Theaterfiguren von Koster Veilsdorf in KERAMOS no. 20, 1963, p. 3 ff.