Meissen single-handled beakers and saucers

— circa 1730
Both Sold

Each painted with a European landscape scene within a gilt scrollwork quatrelobe cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red and purple scrollwork, gilt strapwork borders to the rims. Crossed swords in underglaze-blue (beaker) and blue enamel (saucer), gilt numeral 1. to both, incised / inside footrim of saucer.

Provenance:
The Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg
Sir Jeffrey Tate Kt. CBE and Klaus Kuhlemann Collection

Dimensions
saucer 14.2cm diameter, beaker 7.7cm high

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History

Literature:
D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, I (1999), no. 79

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, The Hoffmeister Collection, 1999-2009