A MEISSEN AUGSBURG-DECORATED GOLDCHINESEN TEACUP AND SAUCER
A MEISSEN AUGSBURG-DECORATED GOLDCHINESEN TEACUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 2 TO TEACUP AND 21 TO SAUCER, THE DECORATION FROM THE WORKSHOP OF ABRAHAM SEUTER OF SLIGHTLY LATER DATE

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A MEISSEN AUGSBURG-DECORATED GOLDCHINESEN TEACUP AND SAUCER
Circa 1740, blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 2 to teacup and 21 to saucer, the decoration from the workshop of Abraham Seuter of slightly later date
Moulded with fruiting vine and the saucer gilt with chinoiserie figures about a lattice throne supported by strapwork, the borders with broad gilt bands and scrolls (2)
Exhibited
Orlando, Florida, Eighteenth Century Porcelain, From the Collection of Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson, Orlando Museum of Art, 27 March 1988-12 February 1989, no. 9.

Lot Essay

For a cream-pot and cover and a saucer gilt with similar scenes, see Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan, Braunsweig, 1971, vol. 1, no. 95 and Sotheby's, London, 10 March 1970, lot 70 respectively.

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