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Lot 35*

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

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Meissen octagonal yellow-ground cup and saucer, circa 1740

The saucer painted in Chinese famille verte style with a hawk in flight behind a large flower issuing from stylised rockwork surrounded by other indianische Blumen, the cup reserved with two similar purple-edged quatrefoil cartouches, brown-edged rims, the teabowl: 5.1cm high; the saucer: 12.4cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised // to the inside of the footrim of the cup, impressed 23 on the saucer (vertical haircrack next to the handle) (2)

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Provenance:
Property from the collection of Alice and Murray Braunfeld, sold Sotheby's New York, 21 May 2004, lot 194

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 152

A similar cup and saucer in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim, is illustrated by R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no. 370; and by Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellan mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern (2013), II, cat. no. 435. The coffee pot from the service is in the Hans Syz Collection (Hans Syz et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (1979), no. 113). Two more cups and saucers of this rare type were sold by Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 19 November 2009, lots 3017 and 3018.

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