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CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INDISTINCT GILDER'S NUMERALS, DREHER'S ,, TO FOOTRIM OF CUP
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A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED OCTAGONAL CUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INDISTINCT GILDER'S NUMERALS, DREHER'S ,, TO FOOTRIM OF CUP
Painted with purpurmalerei vignettes, one side of the cup with a figure on horseback bidding farewell to his family, the other with an encampment, each within elaborate purple-edged gilt cartouches with shaped and foliate panels of hatched ornament, with small insects near the loop handles, the interior with a gilt foliate vitruvian scroll border, the saucer with soldiers sacking a village, within a similar cartouche surrounded by three flower-sprays and a similar border (cup with wear to gilding of handles and border, saucer with areas of slight scratching and minute wear, extensive wear to both footrims)
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INDISTINCT GILDER'S NUMERALS, DREHER'S ,, TO FOOTRIM OF CUP
Painted with purpurmalerei vignettes, one side of the cup with a figure on horseback bidding farewell to his family, the other with an encampment, each within elaborate purple-edged gilt cartouches with shaped and foliate panels of hatched ornament, with small insects near the loop handles, the interior with a gilt foliate vitruvian scroll border, the saucer with soldiers sacking a village, within a similar cartouche surrounded by three flower-sprays and a similar border (cup with wear to gilding of handles and border, saucer with areas of slight scratching and minute wear, extensive wear to both footrims)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.