A MEISSEN ARMORIAL COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER, each piece with the Arms flanked by puce foliage scrolls and gilt palm branches and with scattered deutsche Blumen within gilt scroll borders (minute flaking to enamels on saucer), blue crossed swords marks, gilder's numerals 49., the coffee-cup impressed B, the saucer with Pressnummer 63, circa 1745

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER, each piece with the Arms flanked by puce foliage scrolls and gilt palm branches and with scattered deutsche Blumen within gilt scroll borders (minute flaking to enamels on saucer), blue crossed swords marks, gilder's numerals 49., the coffee-cup impressed B, the saucer with Pressnummer 63, circa 1745

Exhibited

Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue no. 73

Lot Essay

The Arms are perhaps those of Sattelbogen of Bavaria

A coffee-cup and saucer with the same Arms was sold in these Rooms, 24 March 1975, lot 174 and a teacup and saucer from the Weitnauer collection, sold in our Geneva Rooms, 11 November 1985, lot 358; another is illustrated by Morley-Fletcher, p. 69

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