modelled by Peter Reinicke as a figure standing before a tree stump, his turned head with an extravagant nose under a green conical hat, wearing a puce shirt with blue sash to the long sword under his outstretched left hand, flower encrusted oval base, 14.5cm high, some restoration

This rare model is after one of the Commedia dell’Arte figures commissioned by Johann Adolf II Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels in 1743. The Meissen sculptors Johann Joachim Kändler (1706-1775), Johann Friedrich Eberlein (1695-1749), and Peter Reinicke (1711-1768) collaborated on the project. The figure, mentioned in Reinicke's records in August 1744, was based on Francois Joullain’s engraving ‘Habit de Giangurgolo Calabrois’, published in Louis Riccoboni’s ‘Histoire du Théâtre Italien’ (Paris,1728), the design source for a number of the figures from the series.