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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEACUP AND SAUCER
Lot 528

A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEACUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 63 TO SAUCER, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1750

Closed25 October 2011

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GBP 437

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEACUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 63 TO SAUCER, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1750
Painted in the workshop of F.F. Mayer of Pressnitz with mythological scenes, named below, within elaborate shaped oval gilt cartouches with panels of diaper and scale ornament edged with scrolls, the interior of the cup with Perseus slaying Medusa, both with gilt diaper-pattern panel and scroll borders (2)

With Rolf Oberacker, Wiesbaden, 1991

Specialist note

For a cup and saucer from the same service, see G. E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence und Porzellan Hausmaler (Leipzig, 1925), Vol. II, p. 303, no. 251, and for a related cup and saucer, see M. Campbell Gristina et al., The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain (Jacksonville, 1984), p. 268, no. 673.