Flacon in the Form of a Harlequin

Meissen, circa 1760 / Height: 8 cm

Flacon in the form of a Harlequin, leaning against a gold-accented Rocaille vase. The finial of the vase serves as a removable stopper. The piece features a narrow gold mount, with an additional gold-mounted base rim.

Cf.:

• Edmund Wilhelm Braun-Tropau: Die Sammlung von Porzellanflakons der Frau Cahn-Speyer in Wien, Kunst und Handwerk, vol. 18, 1915, pp. 57–77, fig. 9
• Collection of Frau Schöller (Brüning, Europäisches Porzellan, 1904, T. XXII, nos. 350, 351)
• Jahn Collection, no. 154 (crossed swords mark with dot)
• Jedding: Meissner Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz, no. 203 (circa 1760, crossed swords mark with dot, formerly Ernesto and Emily Blohm Collection)
• Klemperer Collection, no. 472, T. 37
• Fischer Collection, no. 477, T. XXII