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A Meissen beaker and saucer circa 1730 image 1
A Meissen beaker and saucer circa 1730 image 2
Lot 49

A Meissen beaker and saucer
circa 1730

25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £12,000

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A Meissen beaker and saucer

circa 1730
Each superbly painted with a harbour scene depicting figures in the foreground, within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork, gilt scrollwork borders, the beaker painted with indianische Blumen and a bird around the gilt, ear-shaped handle, beaker: 7.7cm high; saucer: 14.1cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (beaker) and blue enamel (saucer), gilt numeral 1. to both, incised / inside footrim of saucer (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired in 1990

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 82

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009

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