A MEISSEN COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER, the cup painted with figures in a harbour scene, the saucer with two travellers in an extensive wooded landscape with a church in the distance within elaborate shell, scroll, trellis and foliage cartouches suspending garlands of flowers, (hairline crack to handle), blue crossed swords marks, painter's mark W in puce, Pressnummer 24 to coffee-cup and 54 to saucer, circa 1750

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A MEISSEN COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER, the cup painted with figures in a harbour scene, the saucer with two travellers in an extensive wooded landscape with a church in the distance within elaborate shell, scroll, trellis and foliage cartouches suspending garlands of flowers, (hairline crack to handle), blue crossed swords marks, painter's mark W in puce, Pressnummer 24 to coffee-cup and 54 to saucer, circa 1750

Exhibited

Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue no. 66

Lot Essay

The painter's mark may perhaps be that of Johann Benjamin Wentzel working at Meissen circa 1726-1765

Cf. Syz, no. 211 for a part tea and coffee-service of the same pattern

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