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A Meissen octagonal purple-ground cup and saucer, circa 1735 image 1
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Lot 63*

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

£6,000 - £8,000

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A Meissen octagonal purple-ground cup and saucer, circa 1735

The cup reserved with two gilt-edged quatrelobe panels enclosing landscape scenes, the saucer with a similar scene in an elaborate gilt scrollwork cartouche edged with purple scrollwork, trellis, surmounted by a chinoiserie figure, gilt scrollwork borders to the inside rims, the scroll handle gilt, the cup: 8cm high; saucer: 14.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised Formers mark // to the inside of the footrim, gold numeral 6. to both items, incised // inside footrims (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 8 December 2003, lot 125 (part)

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 98

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