Live Auction 6344Christie's Interiors
A MEISSEN POWDERED-PURPLE-GROUND TEACUP AND SAUCER
Lot 176

A MEISSEN POWDERED-PURPLE-GROUND TEACUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PAINTER'S PURPLE A TO FOOTRIMS, PRESSNUMMER 2 TO BOTH

Closed7 June 2011

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GBP 750

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A MEISSEN POWDERED-PURPLE-GROUND TEACUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PAINTER'S PURPLE a TO FOOTRIMS, PRESSNUMMER 2 TO BOTH
Painted with river landscapes, each with an equestrian figure in the foreground within brown line ogival panels and iron-red concentric line medallions, gilt line rims (2)

Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G57

Specialist note

For a coffee-pot and cover probably from the same service, see Hans Syz et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (Washington, D.C. 1979), Vol. I, p. 302, no. 188.