A MEISSEN KAKIEMON ARMORIAL COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER, the cup with moulded shell and scroll handle enriched in gilding and flared rim and footrim and painted with scattered indianische Blumen, the Arms flanked by purple and gilt mantling with a wheatsheaf below, the saucer similarly painted about a central circular medallion of a stylised hut among trees and boulders, chocolate line rims, blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 7 to cup and 56 to saucer, circa 1740

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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON ARMORIAL COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER, the cup with moulded shell and scroll handle enriched in gilding and flared rim and footrim and painted with scattered indianische Blumen, the Arms flanked by purple and gilt mantling with a wheatsheaf below, the saucer similarly painted about a central circular medallion of a stylised hut among trees and boulders, chocolate line rims, blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 7 to cup and 56 to saucer, circa 1740

Lot Essay

The Arms are those of Johann Christian von Hennicke, a cabinet minister who was appointed Vice-Director of the Meissen factory in 1739, see Rainer Rückert, op. cit., no. 473; a similar example sold Christie's Geneva, 17 November 1980, lot 112 and 11 November 1985, lot 350

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