A MEISSEN COMPOSITE TÊTE À TÊTE painted with bouquets and scattered specimen flowers within gilt flowerhead and scroll borders, comprising:

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A MEISSEN COMPOSITE TÊTE À TÊTE painted with bouquets and scattered specimen flowers within gilt flowerhead and scroll borders, comprising:

Two chocolate-cups and two covers with moulded shell and double-scroll handles, the domed covers with flowering branch finials (one cover with rim chip, both with chips to finials, minute chips to footrims), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 6 to cups
A trefoil-shaped tray with two pierced galleries and a shell-moulded spatulate handle (galleries restored), blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer 26, circa 1745
the tray 29cm. wide

Lot Essay

According to a contemporary manuscript note attached to the inside of one of the cups "Dresden Caudle Cup given by the Earl Marshal in 1741 to his niece the Lady Clementina Elphinstone on the birth of her son the Hon^.le William Elphinstone" (sic)

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