A Vienna coffee-cup and saucer
Circa 1750, blue shield mark, Pressnummer 23
The cup of tall slightly flared form with double-scroll handle, painted with wooded landscape vignettes, the cup with a violinist playing the violin by a fence, the saucer with a man seated on a barrel waving his hat and holding a tankard, brown line rims (hairline crack from rim of cup, slight chipping to footrim, firing fault to handle, saucer with slight wear to enamels)
A Vienna coffee-cup and saucer
Circa 1750, blue shield mark, Pressnummer 23
The cup of tall slightly flared form with double-scroll handle, painted with wooded landscape vignettes, the cup with a violinist playing the violin by a fence, the saucer with a man seated on a barrel waving his hat and holding a tankard, brown line rims (hairline crack from rim of cup, slight chipping to footrim, firing fault to handle, saucer with slight wear to enamels)