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Lot 22*

2 May 2013, 13:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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A Meissen beaker and saucer, circa 1728

Each finely painted with a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche edged with iron-red, purple and yellow scrollwork and swags, the gilt handle of the beaker flanked by indianische Blumen and a bird in flight, the reverse of the saucer with iron-red indianische Blumen, gilt strap- and scrollwork borders to the rims, the beaker: 7.5cm high; the saucer: 12.5cm diam., crossed swords marks within concentric circles, gilt numeral 1. to both (2)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 87

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