Pair of Doccia Figures of Dancers

Pair of Doccia Figures of Dancers.

Perhaps modelled by Giuseppe Bruschi.
Hard-paste porcelain.
Circa 1760-65.
The man 17.5 cm high, the lady 17.0 cm high.

These two figures, with their exceptionally richly decorated and gilded red coats, are clearly made as a pair, but are based on two Meissen models of dancers which were probably not originally conceived together.

The female dancer is modelled closely on a figure by J. J. Kaendler[i] whilst the man has been cleverly adapted and improved with more subtle hand gestures from another dancer by Kaendler.[ii]

[i] Hackenbroch 1956 p. ??? for the Meissen figures from Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Irwin Untermeyer bequest, no.1974.28.116.

[ii] Adams 2004, p. 76, no. 197.

Condition:
The male figure has been broken off the base through the knee and restored. 

Provenance:

James A. Lewis & Son, Inc., New York City (according to label).
Bonhams, London, 9 December 2009, lot 53.
With E & H Manners.
Mavis Watney Collection.

References:

Adams 2004
Yvonne Adams, Meissen Figures 1730-1775, The Kaendler Period (Schiffer Publishing, 2004).

Hackenbroch 1956
Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Harvard University Press, 1956.

Price

This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance