SEVEN FIGURINES FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE

Description:

Closter Veilsdorf, circa 1765/70
H. 15-16,5 cm
Skaramuz, Doctor Poloward (Bolloardo), Capitano, Colombine, 2 x Pantalone, Mezzetino. Polychrome painted. Modeller: Wenzel Neu 1764/65, including blue CV mark, red R. mark on base. All with older restorations, partly chipped.
Jan Ahlers Collection
Listed in the catalogue of forms 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 versions by Neu's students from 1768 onwards. Sattler, 1993, nos. 11-18, e.g. Kramer, E. Theatre figures by Koster Veilsdorf in KERAMOS issue 20, 1963, p. 3 ff.