A VIENNA-STYLE CELADON-GROUND CYLINDRICAL COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER, the cup with a burnished gilt interior and painted with lovers wearing classical dress seated among clouds, another beckoning behind them, within a ciselé gilt rectangular cartouche, the grounds further reserved with arabesques on brown bands and cherubs within oval and circular cartouches, each within a seeded gilt surround, the claret borders enriched with gilt scrolls; and a similar coffee can and a saucer, the cup with Daedalus and Icarus, the saucer with three vignettes of cherubs on lilac grounds (saucer cracked), all with blue beehive marks, circa 1880 (3)

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A VIENNA-STYLE CELADON-GROUND CYLINDRICAL COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER, the cup with a burnished gilt interior and painted with lovers wearing classical dress seated among clouds, another beckoning behind them, within a ciselé gilt rectangular cartouche, the grounds further reserved with arabesques on brown bands and cherubs within oval and circular cartouches, each within a seeded gilt surround, the claret borders enriched with gilt scrolls; and a similar coffee can and a saucer, the cup with Daedalus and Icarus, the saucer with three vignettes of cherubs on lilac grounds (saucer cracked), all with blue beehive marks, circa 1880 (3)

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