Lot 214: A MEISSEN WHITE MODEL OF A COTTAGE CIRCA 1745-50

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARIAN AND MICHAEL SABEE

height 5 1/2 in. (14cm)

modelled with doves on its roof and two sheep reclining in front, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue. Section of base repaired, small chips and losses.

PROVENANCE

Property of Roy P. Mottahedeh, sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., October 22, 1974, lot 436

NOTE

Cottages of this and other forms are discussed by Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Idylle in Porzellan, with examples of the present form illustrated on p. 33. Used as part of the table decoration for the dessert, the 1765 inventory of the estate of Count Von Brühl lists over sixty "Stück Häuser von diversen Sorten. [Houses of different types]." A number of these models are illustrated and discussed by Ulrich Pietsch et al, Schwanen service. Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, pp. 119-123 and pp. 216-219, nos. 159-163. A cottage of the present form, also white, was in the Estate of Martha Isaacson, sold in these rooms, May 20, 2001, lot 192; another, colored, example was sold at Christie's, London, October 7, 1996, lot 417.