Lot 40
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TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN COFFEE-CUPS AND SAUCERS AND A THIRD SAUCER
This lot is offered without reserve. PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. LARRY AYRES
TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN COFFEE-CUPS AND SAUCERS AND A THIRD SAUCER

CIRCA 1730-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE QUAIL SAUCER WITH PRESSNUMMER 63, THE SINGLE SAUCER WITH JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NO. N=243/W

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TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN COFFEE-CUPS AND SAUCERS AND A THIRD SAUCER
CIRCA 1730-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE QUAIL SAUCER WITH PRESSNUMMER 63, THE SINGLE SAUCER WITH JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NO. N=243/W
In the Kakiemon style and palette with variant rims, one cup and saucer painted in the Wachteldekor pattern with two quails underneath blooming chrysanthemum branches, the taller cup and saucer with flowering peony and insects, the single saucer with the 'Three Friends' among banded hedges (5)
Provenance
With the Art Exchange, New York (paper label, the second).
Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson; Christie's, London, 1 June 1992, lot 31 (the second).
Edward Shiffman; Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 1994, lot 223 (the first).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 February 1989, lot 179 (the last).
Exhibited
Orlando, Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue no. 34
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Lot Essay

See J. Jefferson Miller, et al., The Hans Syz Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., no. 100 for a part tea and coffee-service in the same pattern as the tall example and a similar teacup and saucer sold Christie's, London, 4 February 1980, lot 148. Similar examples to the single saucer are in the Syz Collection (no. 92), the Wark Collection at the Cummer Gallery (no. 405), and formerly in the Anderson Collection (no. 28).

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