PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARC HAAS
TWO UNUSUAL GLAZED BISCUIT TABLE OBJECTS
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TWO UNUSUAL GLAZED BISCUIT TABLE OBJECTS
19TH CENTURY
One modeled as a chicken coop in two parts, the base modeled as a hen and her chicks glazed in white and aubergine on a circular, yellow-glazed straw mat bordered in pale green-glazed, bound grasses, the cover modeled as a loosely woven basket with circular opening on top and glazed an olive color; the other also a type of coop, but in one piece, modeled as a domed basket pierced with flower-head roundels and a small doorway on one side above the solid base, with a goose sitting in the interior, covered with a yellowish glaze, the goose's head in aubergine (hen's comb chipped)
3 3/8 and 2 5/8in. (8.5 and 6.7cm.) diam. (2)
19TH CENTURY
One modeled as a chicken coop in two parts, the base modeled as a hen and her chicks glazed in white and aubergine on a circular, yellow-glazed straw mat bordered in pale green-glazed, bound grasses, the cover modeled as a loosely woven basket with circular opening on top and glazed an olive color; the other also a type of coop, but in one piece, modeled as a domed basket pierced with flower-head roundels and a small doorway on one side above the solid base, with a goose sitting in the interior, covered with a yellowish glaze, the goose's head in aubergine (hen's comb chipped)
3 3/8 and 2 5/8in. (8.5 and 6.7cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
Chicken coop: George de Menasce Collection, no. 328
Spink & Son Ltd., George de Menasce Collection, no. 166
Spink & Son Ltd., George de Menasce Collection, no. 166