A NYMPHENBURG TEACUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1755, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARK, PAINTED BY JOHANN KLEIN

Details
A NYMPHENBURG TEACUP AND SAUCER
Circa 1755, impressed shield mark, painted by Johann Klein
With a scroll handle, moulded to the exteriors with flowering branches enriched in colours and gilt, the cup painted en grisaille with a portrait bust, the saucer painted in colours with figures and a hound in a garden with an animal in a basket
Provenance
Julius Carlebach

Lot Essay

Cf. Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel, the Irwin Untermyer Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1956, no. 185, plates 122, 123