A VIENNA PALE-GREEN-GROUND COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER with gilt angular handle, painted with Venus with Cupid and two nymphs beneath a tree in a landscape vignette, the ground gilt with flowerheads within circular cartouches divided by spears and arrows between gilt band and line rims (slight rubbing to ground of saucer), blue shield marks, various Pressnummern, date code for 1805 and 1808, painter's 105 perhaps for Johann Stelzig
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A VIENNA PALE-GREEN-GROUND COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER with gilt angular handle, painted with Venus with Cupid and two nymphs beneath a tree in a landscape vignette, the ground gilt with flowerheads within circular cartouches divided by spears and arrows between gilt band and line rims (slight rubbing to ground of saucer), blue shield marks, various Pressnummern, date code for 1805 and 1808, painter's 105 perhaps for Johann Stelzig
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Johann Stelzig worked at Vienna as a gilder from 1783 to 1805