VILLEROY Statuette in soft porcelain representing... - Lot 246 - Pescheteau-Badin

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VILLEROY Statuette in soft porcelain representing... - Lot 246 - Pescheteau-Badin
VILLEROY Statuette in soft porcelain representing a grotesque dwarf standing on a terrace, with polychrome decoration. No mark. 18th century, circa 1740. H. 11,5 cm. A chip on the base. This figure is directly inspired by an engraving by Martin Engelbrecht from the series "Il Callotto Resuscitato, oder Neu eingerichtes" published in Augsburg around 1710-1715 and in Amsterdam in 1716. It represents the dwarf hussar Holloka Tschimitschko Buttiam Uran. The factory of Meissen has used the same engraving around 1720 to make a porcelain statuette representing this dwarf (see Piasa sale, Drouot, Paris, May 19, 2006, lot 44). Nine models of grotesque dwarfs in Villeroy porcelain have been identified. Six of them of them are in the Linsky Collection at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, including a figure of the of the hussar dwarf Holloka Tschimitschko Buttiam Uran also unmarked (See Clare Le Corbeiller ¸The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art¸1984, no. 281-285, pp. 312-314 and Jeffrey Munger, European Porcelain in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018, no. 50, pp. 161-162). A Savoyard dwarf is in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Harford and illustrated by Clare Le Corbeiller and Linda Roth, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000, n° 35, pp. 62-63, a figure of the same model is preserved in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Finally, two other figures of grotesque dwarfs are preserved in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and reproduced by Aileen Dawson¸French Porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum, 1996, n° 33, p. 46.
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