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Lot 157

A Meissen two-handled chocolate beaker from the "Gelber Löwe" service for the Saxon/Polish court, circa 1755-60

14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £687.50 inc. premium

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A Meissen two-handled chocolate beaker from the "Gelber Löwe" service for the Saxon/Polish court, circa 1755-60

Painted in Kakiemon style with a tiger curling around bamboo and flowering prunus on the reverse, eagle-head handles, brown-edged rim, 6.7cm high (very minor flat chips)

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Provenance:
British Private Collection, assembled in the 1950s and 1960s

The earliest archival mention of such chocolate cups is in August 1756, when 48 were delivered to the Warsaw Hofconditorei; another eight were delivered in September 1760 (J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern (2013), II, no. 264; the author notes that by 1765 only 30 remained, and that some had been moved to the Kurprinzliche Konditorei (Crown Prince's Confectionary).

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