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Lot 171

A Meissen purple-ground chocolate cup and saucer, circa 1735

7 December 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£1,000 - £1,500

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A Meissen purple-ground chocolate cup and saucer, circa 1735

Each painted with Kauffahrtei scenes, on the saucer within iron-red concentric circles in the centre, the beaker reserved with two quatrelobe panels, the single handle picked out in gold, gilt-edged rims, the saucer: 13.2cm diam; the beaker: 7.5cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed numerals, painter's mark D in purple to saucer (2)

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Provenance:
With Elfriede Langeloh, Cologne;
E.A. Titgemeyer Collection, Osnabrück, acquired from the above in 1971

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