Lot 213: A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF VEGETABLE SELLERS CIRCA 1746-50

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARIAN AND MICHAEL SABEE

height 7 1/2 in. (19cm)

modelled by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, the man with a basket of vegetables and the girl with vegetables in her skirt, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue. Her right hand a made up replacement, some small chips and losses to figures, leaves and vegetables.

PROVENANCE

Sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, May 9, 1973, lot 345

NOTE

Pairs of figures of these models are illustrated by Dr. K. Berling, Meissen China An Illustrated History, p. 29, fig. 40, no. 1044 and p. 38, fig. 70, no. 754; and W. B. Honey, Dresden China, pl. XLIII (c) and (d).

A pair from the collection of the late Honorable C. Douglas Dillon was sold in these rooms, October 24, 2003, lot 5.