Catalogue of the well known collection of Commedia dell'Arte figures, the property of the late Alfred E. Pearson, Esq. (sold by order of the executors), comprising a brilliantly coloured Meissen figure of Harlequin with a jug dated 1738 by Johann Joachim Kaendler, and other Kaendler harlequins of unusual colouring and quality, including the greeting, scowling, and frightened harlequins, harlequin with monocle, with passglass, with a dog as a hurdy-gurdy, an early example of the harlequin family, and two harlequins of Böttger porcelain, also Nymphenburg figures of the Captain, and pantaloon by Franz Anton Bustelli, a Höchst figure of Columbine and a Fürstenberg figure of Dr. Boloardo by Simon Feilner, important Meissen porcelain, including a very rare pair of yellow-ground vases with Chinoiseries after Petrus Schenk, an Augustus Rex vase with birds and "indianische Blumen", a remarkable series of dishes, plates, candlesticks and other table wares from the celebrated Sulowski service, a rare apple-green ground part tea service and Höroldt decorated teapots, teacaddies, coffee pot, creampots, and a pair of ormolu-mounted Guinea fowl by Kaendler, also a highly important Berlin royal dinnerservice of four hundred and fifty pieces decorated with named flowers and Berlin views, from the estate of the late Fürstin Marie zu Wied, Princess of the Netherlands, and French and Italian porcelain, comprising Vincennes and Sevres with rose-pompadour, apple-green, and turquoise grounds, a very rare Vincennes apple-green snuff box, two large Capodimonte dishes with Neapolitan views [the property of the late Allfred E. Pierson, Esq. (sold by order of the executors), the property of Lady Stern, the property of Dr. Wilhelm Heyne, the property of Sir William Hayter, and the property of Lord Bagot] [veiling 1967-05-23, London, Sotheby & Co.]