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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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Find your local specialistA 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)
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
