A MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER
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A MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORD MARKS, IMPRESSED ** TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCER

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A MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER
Circa 1740, blue crossed sword marks, impressed ** to footrim of saucer
The cup with double-scroll ear-shaped handle, one side painted with figures at discussion in a wooded landscape with a distant church, the other with merchants at various pursuits by a quay, within quatrefoil dark-brown line cartouches, the ground enriched with flowering branches in the Kakiemon palette, the saucer with a gallant and companion, two children and another couple near an urn on a large pedestal in a wooded river-landscape, within paired iron-red concentric circles, the yellow-ground underside with flowering branches, gilt line rims
5¼in. (13.3cm.) diam., the saucer (2)
来源
With Berthold Bruno Korach, Antike Wohnkunst, Dresden, June 1928
Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Collection, Dresden (inv. no. 142), and thence by descent to the present owner