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Lot 48*

A Meissen chocolate beaker and saucer, circa 1730

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

Sold for £937.50 inc. premium

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A Meissen chocolate beaker and saucer, circa 1730

Painted in Imari style in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with the 'Tischchen' pattern of flowering plants issuing from a table, the rims with trellis band reserved with flower-heads, the ear-shaped handle embellished in gilding, the beaker: 7.2cm high; the saucer: 12.5cm diam., crossed swords marks and indistinct mark in underglaze-blue, impressed Former's mark inside footrim of saucer (2)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 179

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