A Meissen flared beaker

CIRCA 1730

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A Meissen flared beaker
Circa 1730
With gilt gadrooned foot, painted with harbour scenes of figures in boats before quayside buildings within shaped quatrefoil cartouches within gilt-scroll and puce Laub-und-Bandelwerk borders, the ground painted with indianische Blumen, the inner rim with an elaborate gilt- scroll border (rim chip and associated extended crack, wear to gilding, minute chip to rim and footrim), blue crossed swords mark and gilder's 4, Dreher's to footrim
3¼in. (8.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. the example sold in these Rooms, 11 October 1993, lot 186 and the example sold by Christie's Geneva, 9 May 1988, lot 65. For another similar example in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt-am-Main, see the Catalogue, p. 58, no. 40.

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