Lot Essay
A service with this cartouche shape was in the Korthaus Collection, sold in these Rooms in March 1993.
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CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DREHER'S TO CUP AND * TO SAUCER, GILDER'S Z. TO SAUCER
Details
A MEISSEN COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DREHER'S TO CUP AND * TO SAUCER, GILDER'S Z. TO SAUCER
The cup painted with travellers in a mountainous wooded landscape and with figures crossing a bridge by a tower, the saucer with merchants among barrels by an estuary, each within elaborate diaper-panelled ombrierte scroll cartouches surmounted by a tasselled baldacchino flanked by purple figures and with scattered indianische Blumen, the borders with four purpurmalerei panels of merchants on a band of gilt scrolling foliage (some wear to gilt borders, rims and handle and slight wear to cartouche of saucer)
CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DREHER'S TO CUP AND * TO SAUCER, GILDER'S Z. TO SAUCER
The cup painted with travellers in a mountainous wooded landscape and with figures crossing a bridge by a tower, the saucer with merchants among barrels by an estuary, each within elaborate diaper-panelled ombrierte scroll cartouches surmounted by a tasselled baldacchino flanked by purple figures and with scattered indianische Blumen, the borders with four purpurmalerei panels of merchants on a band of gilt scrolling foliage (some wear to gilt borders, rims and handle and slight wear to cartouche of saucer)
Provenance
Koller Collection, sale Zürich, 31st May 1978, lot 3182.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.