Lot Essay
See Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Idylle in Porzellan (Leipzig, 1996), fig. 16.
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CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Details
A MEISSEN FARMHOUSE GROUP
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.G. Ehder as a two storey cottage, the tiled pitched roof with chimney, the central gable suspending a pulley, a farmer's wife at a window below scattering feed on the window sill, the roof with three birds, one end of the cottage applied with creeping foliage, on a mound base encrusted with flowers (two birds restuck, the other with chipping to tail, chipping to chimney cover, two corners of the roof with areas of restoration, the front corner with small replacement section, minor chipping to extremeties)
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.G. Ehder as a two storey cottage, the tiled pitched roof with chimney, the central gable suspending a pulley, a farmer's wife at a window below scattering feed on the window sill, the roof with three birds, one end of the cottage applied with creeping foliage, on a mound base encrusted with flowers (two birds restuck, the other with chipping to tail, chipping to chimney cover, two corners of the roof with areas of restoration, the front corner with small replacement section, minor chipping to extremeties)
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
Provenance
With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1962.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.