1749, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN 3 TO ONE CUP AND 4 TO ONE SAUCER

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN ARMORIAL CUPS AND SAUCERS FROM THE POPE BENEDICT XIV SERVICE
1749, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN 3 TO ONE CUP AND 4 TO ONE SAUCER
En suite to the preceding lot, one side of each cup painted with a vignette, one with figures in the gardens of a palace, the other with a lady arriving on the steps of a palace by a harbour, each within an elaborate cartouche, the wishbone handles moulded with gilt foliage, the interiors with gilt borders of interlocking foliage and flowerheads suspending pendant husks at intervals, the reverses with the same papal coat of arms, the saucers with the same arms within similar gilt borders, the undersides each with three indianische Blumen (one cup with two chips to underside of footrim, saucers each with a minute blemish and minute areas of wear to centre) (2)

Provenance

Given by Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony to Pope Benedict XIV
With Langeloh, from whom they were acquired in 1959.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

See footnote of previous lot. Another coffee-cup and saucer from this service was sold in these Rooms on 2nd December 1974, lot 146 and is now in the Hoffmeister Collection; see Dieter Hoffmeister, Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. II, fig 316, and p. 494 for a list of the recorded pieces that have appeared at auction.

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