A MEISSEN ROBIN'S EGG BLUE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED BEAKER AND SAUCER

1735-1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DREHER'S X TO THE SAUCER

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A MEISSEN ROBIN'S EGG BLUE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED BEAKER AND SAUCER
1735-1740, blue crossed swords marks, Dreher's x to the saucer
Painted after engravings by Alexander Thiele, the beaker on one side with travelers in a Northern European landscape, a town in the background, on the other with a galleon in full sail in a harbor, each reserved on the robin's egg blue ground within a shaped oblong cartouche edged with a band of foliate scrolls; the saucer similarly painted with mounted figures and a horse-drawn cart passing before a farmhouse, reserved within an elaborate cartouche of trellis over Böttger lustre and foliate scrolls and enriched with black outlining, iron-red and puce foliate scrolls, the exterior robin's egg blue; both rims gilt with Laub- und Bandelwerk
4 5/8in. (11.7cm.) diam., the saucer (2)

Provenance

Dr. Max Strauss; Glselig, Vienna, 16-19 January 1922, lot 188 (as part of a tea service)
J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York

Lot Essay

See J. Jefferson Miller II, et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 183 for the wastebowl from the service to which the present breaker and saucer and the teapot and cover offered as lot 277 belong.

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