MEISSEN - Lot 475

MEISSEN Porcelain group depicting a woman at a barn window on a rectangular terrace decorated with flowers and foliage in relief. Designed by 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 one corner of the mantel, a firing crack, small chips to the flowers and foliage on the base. This type of Meissen porcelain house was created in 1743 by Count Heinrich von Brühl. For dessert dessert, these porcelain architectures were laid out on the table to form what was called a Dutch village or Hollandische Dorf, with a church, palace, farms and other forms of dwelling. Although they were success, Meissen porcelain architecture was reserved for an elite clientele and for diplomatic gifts. production was deliberately limited by the factory. Five different sets have been identified belonging to the Count of Brühl, the English ambassador Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, Frederick II of Hesse-Cassel, Marie-Charles-Louis d'Albert, Duc de Luynes and the Marquise de Pompadour. Madame de Pompadour's after-death inventory de Pompadour lists among the Saxon porcelains brought back from the Château de Saint-Ouen under no. 1336: six small houses, farms or thatched cottages valued at 48 livres (Jean Cordey, Inventaire des biens de Madame de Pompadour after her death, Paris, 1939, p. 97). A very similar farm was sold by Etude Pescheteau-Badin, Paris, Drouot, June 18, 2020, lot 26. Three others are in the Ritter Kempski von Rakoszyn collection and reproduced by Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Das Holländische Dorf Aus Meissener Porzellan¸ 2015, n° 19-20-21, p. 60-65.