MEISSEN - Lot 85

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MEISSEN - Lot 85
MEISSEN Porcelain group representing a woman at the window of a barn on a rectangular terrace decorated with flowers and foliage in relief. Model of Johann Joachim Kaendler and Johann Gottlied Ehder. Marked : crossed swords in blue. 18th century, circa 1745-1750. L. 15 cm, H. 15 cm. A chip on a corner of the mantelpiece, a firing crack, small chips to the flowers and foliage on the base. 5 000/6 000 € This type of Meissen porcelain houses was born in 1743 at the initiative of Count Heinrich von Brühl. On the occasion of the dessert, these porcelain architectures were placed on the table to form what was called a Dutch village or or Hollandische Dorf with a church, a palace, farms and other forms of dwelling. If they were successful success, Meissen porcelain architecture was reserved for an elite clientele and for diplomatic gifts, the production was deliberately limited by the factory. Five different sets have been identified belonging to the Count of Brühl, to the English ambassador Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, to Frederick II of Hesse-Cassel Marie-Charles-Louis d'Albert, Duc de Luynes and finally the Marquise de Pompadour. The inventory after death of Madame de Pompadour mentions among the Saxon porcelains brought back from the castle of Saint-Ouen under the n° 1336: six small houses, farms or thatched cottages valued at 48 livres (Jean Cordey, Inventaire des biens de Madame de Pompadour, rédigé after her death, Paris, 1939, p. 97). A very similar farm was sold by the Etude Pescheteau-Badin, Paris, Drouot, June 18, 2020, lot 26. Three others are preserved in the Ritter Kempski von Rakoszyn collection and reproduced by Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Das Holländische Dorf Aus Meissener Porzellan¸ 2015, nos. 19-20-21, pp. 60-65.
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