A MEISSEN GOLD-GROUND QUATREFOIL COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER with angular handle, painted in the manner of J.G. Heintze, the cup with an encampment on a frozen estuary and a river landscape, the saucer with a figure mounting a ladder up a large tree outside a farmhouse within elaborate ombrierte Gitterwerk cartouches reserved on a richly gilt ground, the underside of the saucer with scattered Holzschnitt Blumen and insects (handle broken and repaired, slight rubbing to saucer), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 24 to cup and 23 to saucer, gilder's B., circa 1740

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A MEISSEN GOLD-GROUND QUATREFOIL COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER with angular handle, painted in the manner of J.G. Heintze, the cup with an encampment on a frozen estuary and a river landscape, the saucer with a figure mounting a ladder up a large tree outside a farmhouse within elaborate ombrierte Gitterwerk cartouches reserved on a richly gilt ground, the underside of the saucer with scattered Holzschnitt Blumen and insects (handle broken and repaired, slight rubbing to saucer), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 24 to cup and 23 to saucer, gilder's B., circa 1740
Provenance
Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild

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