Lot Essay
For a cup and saucer probably from the same service, see Hans Syz et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (Washington, D.C., 1979), Vol. I, p. 304, no 189.
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INDISTINCT PRESSNUMMERN
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A MEISSEN GOLD-GROUND COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INDISTINCT PRESSNUMMERN
The cup with courtiers at discussion before a country house in a landscape, the saucer with a peasant on a horse before a fountain in a landscape within a shaped ogival brown line cartouche (cup with minute flake to gilding on rim, saucer with restored rim chip AT 3 o'clock and short associated hairline crack, rim with some flaking and retouching to flaking)
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INDISTINCT PRESSNUMMERN
The cup with courtiers at discussion before a country house in a landscape, the saucer with a peasant on a horse before a fountain in a landscape within a shaped ogival brown line cartouche (cup with minute flake to gilding on rim, saucer with restored rim chip AT 3 o'clock and short associated hairline crack, rim with some flaking and retouching to flaking)
Provenance
Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G73
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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Dominic Simpson