A FÜRSTENBERG DATED MUSICAL GOLD-GROUND CABINET-CUP AND SAUCER the cup on three paw feet with high scroll handle and painted with three panels with named views of Magnus., Mansuetus. and Regina above a greek inscription on a scroll and a score inscribed Sonate pLv/Beethoven 24, the ground painted in pale-green and lilac with musical trophies, scrolling acanthus leaf foliage and a swan suspending a garland of husks from its beak, the centre of the saucer with a named view of St. Blastus above the inscription O faustum et Felicem hunc Diem! within a border with similar decoration with initials between the feet of the swans spelling EDUARD and five monochrome portraits of musicians named below HANDEL, BACH, HAYDN, MOZART and BEETHOVEN (minute chip to rim of cup), blue F. mark above 58 to saucer and gilt MDCCCXL MDCCCXXXIX. on a gilt ribbon between a Janus head to underside of cup, 1840