A MEISSEN COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER, the cup of beaker shape, painted in a dark palette with lovers in wooded landscape vignettes, the handle of the cup flanked by Holzschnitt Blumen, the reverse of the saucer with three further sprays, gilt line rims, blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer 24 to coffee-cup, the saucer with blue crossed swords mark above two dots and with Pressnummer 2, each piece with gilder's numeral 9:, circa 1745