tasse et sa soucoupe en "émail de Saxe" à montures d'or, Allemagne, vers 1720

chacune peinte de vignettes polychromes de personnages sur des quais, bordées de croisillons et rinceaux en relief d'or, le fond peint de guirlandes enrichies de rinceaux  pourpres et de rubans bleus, leur doublures en vermeil, non poinçonnées


each painted in polychrome with small figures in quayside settings within rich raised gilt scrolling and diaper on a garlanded ground picked out with crimson scrollwork and blue ribbons, silver-gilt linings, unmarked

Hans Bäcker, Dresde

Saucer in very good condition apart from one patch of restoration, cup with lining detached also old restoration on and around top rim, some hair cracks
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Une tasse et sa soucoupe à doublure en vermeil et à décor tout à fait semblable fut donnée au Metropolitan Museum, New York, par Irwin Untermeyer en 1964. Auparavant dans les collections de Bunal, Saloman and Margarete Oppenheim, elle fut illustrée dans l'article de Walter Holzhausen, 'Email mit Goldauflage in Berlin und Meissen nach 1700', Der Kunstwanderer, 23 September 1930, figs. 11 & 12.

A silver-gilt lined cup and saucer with extremely similar decoration was given to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, by Irwin Untermyer in 1964. Formerly in the Bunal, Saloman and Margarete Oppenheim Collections, it was illustrated by Walter Holzhausen, 'Email mit Goldauflage in Berlin und Meissen nach 1700', Der Kunstwanderer, 23 September 1930, figs. 11 & 12.