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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 477110, member: 5833&quot;]In taking a quick look at other Pulcinella porcelain figures, I find yours more interesting.&nbsp; Your guy is not wearing a Carnival mask, as some others do, and the modeler of yours accentuated his grotesqueness by giving him the large mouth that is another of his characteristics, which I do not see on the others the come up most readily.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t a clue about when this particular piece was made, but the design seems to me to follow older depictions that do not shy away from making him ugly and mean looking.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And looking at others, think Lecollectioneur is right about yours having been holding a stick or cudgel, which may have actually been wood.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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