Court Jester Fröhlich, H 23 cm

Diverting Councillor & Court Conjurer, Most Laudable Electoral Saxon & Royal Polish Court Mill Commissioner and Tooth Extractor: Joseph Fröhlich has survived in the annals of the Dresden court as well as in art history. Well, he must have been quite a remarkable character, leading August the Strong to tolerate him good humouredly – and Johann Joachim Kaendler modelled him around 1737 as a table figurine in Tyrolean costume with a jiggling head. We still take pleasure from looking at this figure today, and enjoy tapping him on his furrowed brow!