Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 97

A MEISSEN GOLD-GROUND COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INDISTINCT PRESSNUMMERN

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 625

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A MEISSEN GOLD-GROUND COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INDISTINCT PRESSNUMMERN
The cup with courtiers at discussion before a country house in a landscape, the saucer with a peasant on a horse before a fountain in a landscape within a shaped ogival brown line cartouche (cup with minute flake to gilding on rim, saucer with restored rim chip AT 3 o'clock and short associated hairline crack, rim with some flaking and retouching to flaking)

Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G73

Specialist note

For a cup and saucer probably from the same service, see Hans Syz et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (Washington, D.C., 1979), Vol. I, p. 304, no 189.