Lot 88
A Meissen cup and saucer, circa 1745-50
7 December 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £437.50 inc. premium
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A Meissen cup and saucer, circa 1745-50
The cup painted with a Kauffahrtei of merchants at a quayside with their wares, the ear-shaped handle highlighted in gold, the saucer painted with two figures in a landscape with a church spire in the distance, both framed by brightly painted scrollwork, trellis and foliate cartouches hung with garlands, gilt-edged rims, crossed swords in underglaze-blue and painter's mark W in puce to both, impressed 24 to cup and 54 to saucer (haircrack at handle) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson Collection, sold Christie's London, 1 June 1992, lot 56
Exhibited:
Orlando Museum of Art, 27 March 1988 to 12 February 1989, cat. no. 66