A MEISSEN QUATREFOIL TEACUP AND SAUCER painted in green camaieu with gallants and companions in landscape vignettes after Watteau alternating with gilt ground panels reserved with flower-sprays within gilt foliage scroll, shell and flowerhead borders, blue crossed swords marks, circa 1740

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A MEISSEN QUATREFOIL TEACUP AND SAUCER painted in green camaieu with gallants and companions in landscape vignettes after Watteau alternating with gilt ground panels reserved with flower-sprays within gilt foliage scroll, shell and flowerhead borders, blue crossed swords marks, circa 1740

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For a full discussion of a similar service which accompanied Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony when she married, in 1738, Charles King to the two Sicilies see Claus Boltz, 'Ein Beitrag zum grünen Watteau-service für Neapel', pp. 20-24, Keramos, January 1978; see also Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, op. cit., pl. 34, nos. 229-232 for examples in the Klemperer Collection

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