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Lot 83

A rare Meissen armorial coffee cup and saucer
circa 1750

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

£3,000 - £4,000

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A rare Meissen armorial coffee cup and saucer

circa 1750
Each painted with the arms of Lognay and another, enclosed by scattered flower sprigs, gilt foliate scrollwork borders to the rims, the scroll handle embellished in gilding, the saucer: 13.3cm diam., the cup: 6.8cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, painter's numeral 71. in purple to both, impressed 64 to saucer (small restored rim chip to saucer) (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 13 November 1983, lot 104;
Alfred Schwarzenbach Collection, Zürich, sold Sotheby's London, 15 November 1994, lot 58;
Acquired in the above sale

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 337

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

Another cup and saucer from the service is in a Bad Pyrmont private collection (Lemcke 2002, p. 122).

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