A Meissen (Marcolini) cup and saucer

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A Meissen (Marcolini) cup and saucer
straight sided, painted with loose sprays of flowers and scattered sprigs within gilt ovolo bands, with a leaf moulded and beaded handle, blue crossed swords and star mark, circa 1800 (minor flaking to gilt rim of cup, firing crack through base of handle)
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Literature
Barbara Beauchamp-Markowsky, Europäische Porzellan, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, (Cologne 1980), no. 138 a & b for a teapot and coffee pot from a similar service.

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