Meissen comedy group "The impetuous lover"
17 cm high, underglaze blue swords mark , impressed 2 x "45" (like Collection Salz see below), form number 464, Meissen August 1743, cast and decoration soon after
Description
Taxa (Rafael Keramos 203/204 2009 No. 21): "1ditto, composed of 4 figures, with a shepherdess seated on the grass accompanied by a neatly dressed youth who would lover her, though she declines, Cupid is on the youth holding him by his hair and hitting him on the head with his bow, a harlequin stands to one side mocking the youth."
The group is one of the most dynamic and full of movement in Kaendler’s oeuvre. The funny scene with its wit and charm - the prevented lovers, the laughing harlequin, and the hitting (!) Armor - certainly goes back to a Commedia dell’arte performance given by the Comici Italiani at the Dresden Opera. The troupe - since 1739 at the court of August III - celebrated great triumphs and had a lasting influence on the work of Kaendler (Menzhausen "In Porzellan verzaubert" p. 56), his Harlequin and Commedia dell’arte figures, which were created from 1738 onwards. Bustelli took the group (without harlequin) in Nypmhenburg as a model for his "Stormy Galan" of 1756 (exhibition catalogue 2004 No. 101 Figs. 315 - 317).
Comparative pieces: Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection (Menzhausen pp. 150 and 64); Wurm Collection (exhibition catalogue 2010 no. 351 with impressed "45" = exhibition catalogue Düsseldorf 1997 no. 203); Siegfried Salz Collection (no. 87 T. XII impressed 2 x "45"); Gardiner Museum (Chilton no. 95, 96 and pp. 144 and 148)
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