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TWO MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEACUPS AND SAUCERS EMBLEMATIC OF APRIL AND SEPTEMBER painted in the workshop of Mayer of Pressnitz, April with a gallant and companion with baskets of fruit, a boy with a dog, a nurse suckling a child, two men carrying a pot plant and garden implements within gilt scroll and dot borders, both pieces inscribed APRILIS, September with a gallant and companion beside a woman with a basket of grapes and a monkey, the cup with a peasant couple with fish and a duck and a nymph tempting a sleeping man with grapes within similar borders, both pieces inscribed September (minute chips to rim of first cup), blue crossed swords and dot marks, the cup with B, circa 1770