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Kaendler (1706-1775) was the talented sculptor who worked for Meissen, specialising in figures, groups, and wonderfully modelled wreaths of flowers, clusters of fruit and swinging cupids, executed in the round.\r\n\r\nKaendler modelled this figure after an etching by Jacques Callot (1592-1635) from a series of prints entitled <i>Balli di Sfessania</i>, ca.1622, which show dances known as the 'sfessania', characterised by violent contortions and gesticulations.  Callot's etching depicts the Commedia dell'Arte characters Razullo and Cucurucu in the foreground with a performance on stage behind them. Razullo plays on a long-necked stringed instrument while Cucurucu dances.  The museum owns the pair to this figure, that of Razullo (S.887-1981).","physicalDescription":"Figurine of a bearded man wearing a full face mask with an exaggerated long red nose. He is dressed in a green beret, a magenta short-sleeved doublet with a row of large moulded buttons down the front, over a white shirt with full sleeves gathered to the cuffs, magenta hose and black shoes. He leans against a tree stump, his right arm raised and bent at the elbow, the hand pointing towards his head, his left arm hanging down with the hand turned to his thigh.  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