Allach porcelain figurine collected postwar by a Jewish member of the French resistance

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Glazed, white porcelain figurine of a man in a juggler’s costume with a domed hat, his body twisted and his arms raised as though mid-motion. His stands sideways, with his legs bent at the knees and angled to the sides, his weight back on his right leg and his left leg forward, the foot turned outward. His right arm is lifted to shoulder height, with the bent elbow back, his forearm parallel to the ground with his open-palmed hand facing out near his face. His left shoulder drops down slightly and the is forearm angled downward. His palm is turned down, with slightly curled fingers. His left index and pointer fingers are broken. His face is smooth and he has a focused gaze, prominent nose, and a slight smile. His short, curled hair is slightly visible beneath the brim of his domed hat. The brim is high and folded upward stiffly with curved edges and slots at the front. A thin length of cloth holds the hat on by wrapping around his neck, through the hat’s slots and around the dome to a knot at the back. The end of a long, narrow length of cloth is fixed to his left upper chest. This extends over his shoulder, where it trails down his back and side to his hip. He wears a long-sleeved, thigh-length tunic with a straight hem and a deep V-neck neckline with buttons up the centerline. The long sleeves are loose and balloon out at the cuffs into wide bells that are caught open and flowing as though catching air mid-movement. A second, long, thin length of cloth wraps around his waist and loosely around his left thigh before being knotted to the waist section. His leggings are fitted, support bells around his upper left calf, and tuck into ankle-high shoes with pointed toes. He stands on a low, irregular, oval-shaped base, which has a maker’s mark and fraktur-style font stamped into the hollow underside. There is a rough patch on the underside of his torso.