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Groupe représentant un couple de fermiers endormis en grès de Böttger, Meissen, 1965 A Meissen Böttger stoneware group of sleeping farmers, 1965 image 1
Groupe représentant un couple de fermiers endormis en grès de Böttger, Meissen, 1965 A Meissen Böttger stoneware group of sleeping farmers, 1965 image 2
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Groupe représentant un couple de fermiers endormis en grès de Böttger, Meissen, 1965

A Meissen Böttger stoneware group of sleeping farmers, 1965

29 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

€1,500 - €2,500

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Groupe représentant un couple de fermiers endormis en grès de Böttger, Meissen, 1965

A Meissen Böttger stoneware group of sleeping farmers, 1965


Modelled by Ernst Barlach, the male and female farmer dressed in overcoats resting on an earthy mound, signed "E. BARLACH" to side of base, 28cm high, incised crossed swords mark with double cancellation mark to reverse of base, model number A.1072 and modeller's number 107 with date mark for 1965

Footnotes

Barlach briefly returned to ceramics in the early 1920s supplying the Meissen manufactory with two final models in Böttger stoneware.

For a full discussion of Barlach's work in ceramics, see Ekkart Klinge, Ernst Barlach, Porzellan, 1995.

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