Live Auction 6344Christie's Interiors
A MEISSEN COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER
Lot 173

A MEISSEN COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORD MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 2 TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCER, GILDER'S 12. TO BOTH

Closed7 June 2011

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GBP 1,250

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A MEISSEN COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORD MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 2 TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCER, GILDER'S 12. TO BOTH
Painted with figures in wooded landscapes within Gitterwerk borders and gilt line rims, the reverse of the cup and underside of the saucer with Holzschnitt Blumen and ombrierte insects (2)

Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 16th December 1982, lot 196
Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G78

Specialist note

A very similar coffee-cup and saucer is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 146, no. 604.