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CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
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A Meissen Hausmalerei teacup and saucer
Circa 1745, blue crossed swords mark
Painted at Bayreuth in the workshops of J.F. Metzsch, the teacup with a gilt wishbone handle, the interior with an elaborate border with flowering branches issuing from shaped panels of diaper and herring-bone ornament centred by puce fans, within a gilt band rim, the saucer similarly decorated around a central bouquet of flowers, the undersides of both moulded with naturally coloured flowering and fruiting prunus branches (slight flaking to enamels of underside of saucer)
Circa 1745, blue crossed swords mark
Painted at Bayreuth in the workshops of J.F. Metzsch, the teacup with a gilt wishbone handle, the interior with an elaborate border with flowering branches issuing from shaped panels of diaper and herring-bone ornament centred by puce fans, within a gilt band rim, the saucer similarly decorated around a central bouquet of flowers, the undersides of both moulded with naturally coloured flowering and fruiting prunus branches (slight flaking to enamels of underside of saucer)