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Lot 52*

A Meissen octagonal green-ground cup and saucer, circa 1735-40

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

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Meissen octagonal green-ground cup and saucer, circa 1735-40

The saucer painted in Kakiemon style with a view of an Oriental garden within concentric circles and scattered wheatsheaves and indianische Blumen, the cup reserved with a shaped panel painted with flowering bamboo, brown-edged rims, the cup: 6cm high; the saucer: 11.8cm across, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised // inside both footrims (ground colour misfired) (2)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 149

A similarly decorated two-handled cup and saucer and a tea canister are in the Wark Collection (U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain (2011), nos. 235-237). A cup from the same service in the Wark Collection is illustrated by Pietsch (2011), no. 307.

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