CIRCA 1740-45

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A MEISSEN MAY-BLOSSOM JAGD CUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1740-45
The richly gilt teacup interior and saucer obverse each reserved with four ombrierte shell and scroll panels about a central landscape panel painted in the manner of B.G. Häuer with huntsmen on horseback, the cup exterior and saucer reverse encrusted with white petals, the turquoise branch feet and teacup handle with foliate terminals (teacup with restored rim chip, very minor chipping to flowers and feet of saucer)

Provenance

With Charles Bernstein, Oakland, California, 1986

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

For a cup and saucer from the same service (also with hunting scenes), see D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, pp. 330-331, no. 211. A similar service (with different handles) is in the Weimar Museum, see G. Reinheckel, Prachtvolle Service aus Meissner Porzellan (Leipzig, 1989), fig. 61.

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