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Lot 180*

A Meissen part tea and coffee service, circa 1760

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4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A Meissen part tea and coffee service, circa 1760

Each piece moulded with rococo cartouches in low relief and painted with birds and fowl in gilt-edged landscape vignettes and scattered flowers, gilt dentil rims, the teacups with a flower spray inside, comprising:
a coffee pot and cover
a teapot and associated cover
a milk jug (lacking cover)
a sugar bowl and cover
a tea canister and cover
six large teacups and saucers
one small teacup and saucer
four coffee cups and saucers, the coffee pot and cover: 27.5cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed numerals, incised R to coffee pot (one saucer restuck, a coffee cup with a haircrack to handle, tea canister cover restuck, some minor rim chips, some wear to gilt rims) (31)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Lempertz Cologne, 17 November 1964, lot 1165;
Property from a Swiss Private Collection (acquired by the present owner in the above sale)

Saleroom notices

Please note that the cover with the teapot probably belongs to the milk jug.

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