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A rare Meissen lavender-ground beaker and saucer, circa 1735-40 image 1
A rare Meissen lavender-ground beaker and saucer, circa 1735-40 image 2
A rare Meissen lavender-ground beaker and saucer, circa 1735-40 image 3
Lot 64*

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

£3,500 - £4,500

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A rare Meissen lavender-ground beaker and saucer, circa 1735-40

The bell-shaped cup reserved with two shaped brown-edged panels painted with European landscape scenes, the saucer with a similar river scene depicting ships in the distance by a ruined tower, within iron-red concentric circles, gilt-edged rims and handle, the beaker: 6.8cm high; the saucer: 12.5cm diam., crossed swords marks in blue (cup) and underglaze-blue (saucer), painted // inside footrim of saucer (2)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 111

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