A MEISSEN ARMORIAL CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER from the Trotha service, the arms with a quartered shield below two crests and enclosed by foliage scroll mantling above tied palm fronds, the teabowl painted on one side with the Arms and on the other with a dog chasing a boy, a seated figure and a man with a tray on a terrace above a gilt diaper and scroll support with Böttger lustre panels, the rims with broad bands of interlocking gilt scrolls and diaper panels and the interior of the teabowl and underside of the saucer with sprays of indianische Blumen (some slight rubbing to gilt rims), blue caduceus mark to teabowl and blue crossed swords mark to saucer, Dreher's marks :I. to teabowl and oo to saucer, 1731

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER from the Trotha service, the arms with a quartered shield below two crests and enclosed by foliage scroll mantling above tied palm fronds, the teabowl painted on one side with the Arms and on the other with a dog chasing a boy, a seated figure and a man with a tray on a terrace above a gilt diaper and scroll support with Böttger lustre panels, the rims with broad bands of interlocking gilt scrolls and diaper panels and the interior of the teabowl and underside of the saucer with sprays of indianische Blumen (some slight rubbing to gilt rims), blue caduceus mark to teabowl and blue crossed swords mark to saucer, Dreher's marks :I. to teabowl and oo to saucer, 1731

Lot Essay

A coffee, tea and chocolate-service was probably made for Friedrich Lebrecht von Trotha, Herr of Gänsefurth, Krosigk and Goldschau on the occasion of his marriage to Dorothea Maria von Wulffen on 27 June 1731, see Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts no. 104 for a chocolate-cup and saucer from this service in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; another teabowl and saucer sold Sotheby's, 16 July 1991, lot 111

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