A MEISSEN ARMORIAL COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER with moulded scroll and wishbone handle enriched in gilding, painted with the Papal Arms of the Lambertini family and the cup with courtiers at discussion and on a terrace before a country house in a wooded landscape within an elaborate gitterwerk, purple and iron-red scrolling foliage cartouche within borders of gilt C-scrolls and flowerheads, the underside of the saucer with indianische Blumen, blue crossed swords marks, indistinct Pressnummer 3 to cup and 4 to saucer, circa 1749

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER with moulded scroll and wishbone handle enriched in gilding, painted with the Papal Arms of the Lambertini family and the cup with courtiers at discussion and on a terrace before a country house in a wooded landscape within an elaborate gitterwerk, purple and iron-red scrolling foliage cartouche within borders of gilt C-scrolls and flowerheads, the underside of the saucer with indianische Blumen, blue crossed swords marks, indistinct Pressnummer 3 to cup and 4 to saucer, circa 1749

拍品專文

Tommaso Lambertini, Pope Benedict XIV was elected in 1740 and died in 1758, the remaining pieces of this service recorded at auction were sold in these Rooms on 2 December 1974, lots 145-149. This service was given to the Pope by Augustus III in 1749 in recognition of his help in financing a church in Dresden