Gilt bronze and Meissen porcelain clock comprising a statuette from the series of commedia dell' arte figures for the Duke of Weissenfels, representing il Dottore Boloardo standing on an oval base, wearing purple pants and a red and gold vest and wearing a black hat, after a model by Peter Reinicke circa 1744 ; the gilt bronze and painted sheet metal frame decorated with flowers and foliage; the movement brought back at a later date; (accidents, missing parts and restorations). Louis XV period. Clock, H : 29 cm, W : 26 cm Statuette, H : 13,5 cm The figure adorning this clock is part of a series of eighteen statuettes modelled between 1744 and 1747 by Peter Reinicke under the supervision of Kaendler and commissioned by Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1685-1746), first cousin of Augustus the Strong, probably to celebrate his marriage to Frederica of Saxe-Gotha in 1743. A Dottore Boloardo statuette of the same model is in the Gardiner Museum in Toronto and reproduced by Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked¸ 2001, no. 106, p. 310 and Meredith Chilton, Die Series für den Herzog Sachsen-Weissenfels in Reinhard Jansen ed., fest der Komödianten: Commedia dell' Arte¸ 2001, pp. 25-30.