Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 109

A MEISSEN MAY-BLOSSOM JAGD CUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1740-45

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 1,125

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A MEISSEN MAY-BLOSSOM JAGD CUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1740-45
The richly gilt teacup interior and saucer obverse each reserved with four ombrierte shell and scroll panels about a central landscape panel painted in the manner of B.G. Häuer with huntsmen on horseback, the cup exterior and saucer reverse encrusted with white petals, the turquoise branch feet and teacup handle with foliate terminals (teacup with restored rim chip, very minor chipping to flowers and feet of saucer)

With Charles Bernstein, Oakland, California, 1986

Specialist note

For a cup and saucer from the same service (also with hunting scenes), see D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, pp. 330-331, no. 211. A similar service (with different handles) is in the Weimar Museum, see G. Reinheckel, Prachtvolle Service aus Meissner Porzellan (Leipzig, 1989), fig. 61.