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Lot 31*

A Meissen double-handled beaker and saucer, circa 1735

5 December 2012, 13:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A Meissen double-handled beaker and saucer, circa 1735

Painted with European estuary scenes within elaborate quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouches edged in purple and iron-red, the rims with borders of gilt foliate scrollwork reserved with miniature purple monochrome landscape vignettes, gilt ear-shaped handles, the saucer with three sprigs of indianische Blumen to the reverse, the beaker: 6.8cm high; the saucer: 13cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 35. to both, impressed * to saucer (crazing to glaze surface of beaker) (2)

Footnotes

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 103

The tea canister from the same service is in the Wark Collection (U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain (2011), no. 390).

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