CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 4 TO TEACUP AND DREHER'S ** TO SAUCER
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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEACUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 4 TO TEACUP AND DREHER'S ** TO SAUCER
The cup with a continuous scene of Orientals smoking, taking tea and beside a table of vessels among flowering plants, above a double red line support, the interior with a kneeling Oriental feeding a bird, the saucer with two figures beneath a palm tree within a double concentric red line cartouche, gilt line rims (minute wear to rims)
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 4 TO TEACUP AND DREHER'S ** TO SAUCER
The cup with a continuous scene of Orientals smoking, taking tea and beside a table of vessels among flowering plants, above a double red line support, the interior with a kneeling Oriental feeding a bird, the saucer with two figures beneath a palm tree within a double concentric red line cartouche, gilt line rims (minute wear to rims)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 3rd December 1977, lot 320
Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G16
Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G16
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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