Live Auction 2545500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe Including Oriental Carpets
TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN COFFEE-CUPS AND SAUCERS AND A THIRD SAUCER
Lot 40 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. LARRY AYRES

TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN COFFEE-CUPS AND SAUCERS AND A THIRD SAUCER

CIRCA 1730-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE QUAIL SAUCER WITH PRESSNUMMER 63, THE SINGLE SAUCER WITH JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NO. N=243/W

Closed19 April 2012

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TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN COFFEE-CUPS AND SAUCERS AND A THIRD SAUCER
CIRCA 1730-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE QUAIL SAUCER WITH PRESSNUMMER 63, THE SINGLE SAUCER WITH JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NO. N=243/W
In the Kakiemon style and palette with variant rims, one cup and saucer painted in the Wachteldekor pattern with two quails underneath blooming chrysanthemum branches, the taller cup and saucer with flowering peony and insects, the single saucer with the 'Three Friends' among banded hedges (5)

With the Art Exchange, New York (paper label, the second).
Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson; Christie's, London, 1 June 1992, lot 31 (the second).
Edward Shiffman; Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 1994, lot 223 (the first).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 February 1989, lot 179 (the last).

Specialist note

See J. Jefferson Miller, et al., The Hans Syz Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., no. 100 for a part tea and coffee-service in the same pattern as the tall example and a similar teacup and saucer sold Christie's, London, 4 February 1980, lot 148. Similar examples to the single saucer are in the Syz Collection (no. 92), the Wark Collection at the Cummer Gallery (no. 405), and formerly in the Anderson Collection (no. 28).