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Lot 56*

A Meissen purple-ground cup and saucer, circa 1735

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

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A Meissen purple-ground cup and saucer, circa 1735

Painted in Kakiemon style with the 'Double Quail' pattern depicting two quail flanked by flowering plants, within a shaped quatrefoil reserve on the cup, brown-edged rims, the cup: 6.7cm high; the saucer: 11.9cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised // inside footrim of cup and impressed Former's mark ** for Christian Meynert to saucer (2)

Footnotes

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 165

A cup and saucer with a highly similar decoration is in the Ernst Schneider Collection, Lustheim (Renate Eikelmann, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, die Stiftung Ernst SChneider in Schloss Lustheim, 2004, ill. 59.)

Saleroom notices

Please note that there is a hairline crack to the lower terminal of the handle, with an associated shallow chip. Please refer to the department for a full condition report.

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