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AN EXTREMELY FAMILLE ROSE GROUP OF THE ‘TYROLEAN The original model of the group was made by Johann Friedrich
DANCERS’ Eberlein in 1735 for Meissen and reworked by Johann Joachim
Qianlong period, circa 1752 Kändler when it was listed in his Taxa of 1743 as, “Harlequin and a
Decorated in bright, colorful opaque enamels after a Meissen original maiden doing a Polish dance, possibly the Mazurka.” However, due
depicting a couple dancing, often referred to as ‘Tyrolean’ dancers, to its German production, it became popularly known as the Tyrolean
the man wears a yellow hat, blue waistcoat and iron-red breeches; Dancers (fig.1). It was a much-admired group and was copied by the
the woman wears an iron-red bodice with delicate scrolling tendrils in Bow, Chelsea, and possibly Derby potteries in England.
white, and a white apron over a skirt with purple star bursts or stylized
flowerheads; the irregular oval base is molded with flowers and foliage This is the finest of export figures modeled after European figural
scattered between their feet. groups and very few examples have survived, each having slightly
6in (15cm) high different coloring and detailing. When the 1752 wreck of the VOC ship
Geldermalsen was salvaged in 1985 a number of damaged examples
$20,000 - 30,000 were recovered, though they had lost their enamels due to the
corrosion of seawater (fig.2).
乾隆時期 約1752年 粉彩《泰洛爾雙人舞者》擺飾
A very similar example from the collection of Sir Mark Wrightson, Bt.,
Published: sold at Christie’s New York, 17 January 2018, lot 87.
Cohen & Cohen, Angels & Demonslayers, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 48-
49, no. 29 References: Howard, 1994, no. 300, 253, illustrations of a headless
pair from the Geldermalsen wreck and the original Meissen group;
出版： Jörg, 1986, figure. 102, 104, an example from the wreck; Scheurleer,
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Angels & Demonslayers》，香 1974, cat. 221, an example in the Groninger Museum, where they
港，2012年，頁48-49，圖版編號29 now also have an example from the Geldermalsen with heads intact;
Wirgin, 1998, cat. 221, 203, with similar coloring; Du Boulay, 1963, fig.
128; Sargent, 1991, 222-3, an example of a related form of a Dutch
couple dancing, and for another example see Cohen & Cohen, Double
Dutch, 2006, no, 125, 28-29; Cohen & Motley, 2009, 292, another
example of this group; and similar examples in the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge; the Victoria and Albert Museum, in Clunas, 1987, fig. 53
and Kerr & Mengoni, 2011, 77.

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