CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AND PRESSNUMMER 2

细节

A MEISSEN CORAL-RED GROUND TEACUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AND PRESSNUMMER 2
The cup with figures in a landscape within a gilt ogival cartouche with gilt scrollwork, the interior with an estuary scene, the saucer with figures in a landscape within iron-red concentric circles (slight wear to rim of cup)

来源

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 17th November 1980, lot 120
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 8th May 1989, lot 75
Sir Philip Shelbourne Collection, sale Christie's, Myles Place, The Close, Salisbury, 25th October 1993, lot 409

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

荣誉呈献

Dominic Simpson

dsimpson@christies.com +44 (0)20 7752 3026

拍品专文

For a full discussion of this rare ground colour see, Malcolm Gutter, 'Meissen Red Ground Wares', The Antique Collector, February 1989, pp. 30-38 where he notes that there appear to be only five coffee, tea and or chocolate services, two travelling cups, a pair of vases and two single vases manufactured with this ground colour. The present teacup and saucer is from a tea-service of which the tea-caddy, the sugar-bowl and several teacups and saucers are known, see Mary Campbell Gristina et al., The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain (Jacksonville, 1984), nos. 299-302 for three teacups and saucers and the tea-caddy from the same service.