Lot 341 | Meissen | PORCELAIN FIGURINE OF COURT JESTER JOSEPH FRÖHLICH WITH HAT

PORCELAIN FIGURINE OF COURT JESTER JOSEPH FRÖHLICH WITH HAT.

Meissen.
Date: 1924-1934.
Maker/Designer: Model J. J. Kaendler.
Technique: Porcelain, painted in colours and sparingly golden.
Description: Self-confident, with his hands in his braces, Augustus the Strong's 'merrymaker', the
court jester Joseph Fröhlich, with pointed hat in wide trousers and boots, stands
broad-legged on a base. The figure was varied several times by Kaendler and in this model
type was given a hat ornament of flowers and a gold decoration on the braces with the
initials 'J. F.' and the year '1739'.
Measurement: Height 24,5cm.
Mark: Swords mark with dot, painted blue under glaze. Porcelain former's number 50, model number 134.

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Frühes Meissener Porzellan - Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf & Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 1997, Munich 1997, p. 60, no. 34.
- Adams, Len & Yvonne: Meissen Portrait Figures, Leicester 1992.