AN UNUSUAL MEISSEN CUP AND SAUCER CIRCA 1770

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Description

diameter of saucer 5 1/4 in.
13.3 cm

painted, in Vincennes style, with panels of colorful birds in flight within a gilt foliate border reserved on a cobalt blue ground, crossed swords and dot mark in underglaze-blue, painted decorator's marks B and KR. to saucer and B, W and F. to cup. Cup restored.

Provenance

Klaber and Klaber, London

Catalogue Note

This piece was presumably made as a replacement for a Vincennes service.