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Lot 104
A Meissen purple-ground teacup and saucer circa 1745
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,400 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Meissen purple-ground teacup and saucer
circa 1745
Painted in Kakiemon style with two quail flanked by flowering plants, on the teacup within a purple-edged, shaped quatrelobe reserve, the purple ground reserved with indianische Blumen and a foliate band interspersed with flowers, brown-edged rims, the handle embellished in purple, the saucer: 13cm diam, the cup: 4.8cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed 11 (cup) and 4 (saucer) (2)
Painted in Kakiemon style with two quail flanked by flowering plants, on the teacup within a purple-edged, shaped quatrelobe reserve, the purple ground reserved with indianische Blumen and a foliate band interspersed with flowers, brown-edged rims, the handle embellished in purple, the saucer: 13cm diam, the cup: 4.8cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed 11 (cup) and 4 (saucer) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1993
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 287
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Another cup and saucer of the same pattern and ground colour was sold at Christie's London, 14 July 2006, lot 103.
