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Lot 276

A Meissen gold-ground topographical cabinet cup and saucer, circa 1817-22

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

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A Meissen gold-ground topographical cabinet cup and saucer, circa 1817-22

Each with a burnished gold ground, the saucer tooled with foliate borders and the cup with foliage flanking the handle, the cup reserved with a finely painted topographical view within a tooled frame, titled 'Bastey' in black under the foot, crossed swords mark and I in underglaze-blue, impressed L (saucer) and 54 and I (cup) (2)

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A tea- and coffee service with twelve similar cups painted with views of Dresden and environs is in the Twinight Collection, New York (Wittwer 2007, no. 92).

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