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Lot 71*

A rare Meissen cup and saucer, circa 1740

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

£3,000 - £5,000

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A rare Meissen cup and saucer, circa 1740

Each painted with a parrot perched on a stand with a bowl of cherries and a spaniel below, gilt-edged rims, the cup: 6.7cm high; the saucer: 12.9cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed ** on the saucer and 4 on the cup (2)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 139

A bowl and tureen with the same decoration are in the Davids Collection in Copenhagen (Erik Lassen, die Sammlung David Meissen Porzellan, 1985, ill. 87-88).

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