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CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 2 TO SAUCER, GILDER'S 88,, TO BOTH
Details
A Meissen coffee-cup and saucer
Circa 1740, blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 2 to saucer, gilder's 88,, to both
The cup with gilt double-scroll handle and painted with vignettes in schwarzlot, one side with boating figures before a fortified shoreline, the other with figures before distant ruins, both within shaped quatrefoil gilt and Bttger-lustre cartouches enriched with purple and brown scrolling foliage, the saucer similarly painted with figures on a frozen river, the interior of the cup and the rim of the saucer with borders of interlocking gilt scrolling foliage (slight wear to gilt rims)
Circa 1740, blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 2 to saucer, gilder's 88,, to both
The cup with gilt double-scroll handle and painted with vignettes in schwarzlot, one side with boating figures before a fortified shoreline, the other with figures before distant ruins, both within shaped quatrefoil gilt and Bttger-lustre cartouches enriched with purple and brown scrolling foliage, the saucer similarly painted with figures on a frozen river, the interior of the cup and the rim of the saucer with borders of interlocking gilt scrolling foliage (slight wear to gilt rims)
Provenance
Anon., sale Sotheby's London, 15 November 1994, lot 73.