A Meissen cup and saucer circa 1738
71*
A rare Meissen cup and saucer, circa 1740
Each painted with a parrot perched on a stand with a bowl of cherries and a spaniel below, gilt-edged rims, the cup: 6.7cm high; the saucer: 12.9cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed ** on the saucer and 4 on the cup (2)
Estimate:
£3,000 - 5,000
€3,500 - 5,900
US$ 4,500 - 7,600

Footnotes

  • Literature:
    Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 139

    A bowl and tureen with the same decoration are in the Davids Collection in Copenhagen (Erik Lassen, die Sammlung David Meissen Porzellan, 1985, ill. 87-88).

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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