An early Tournai porcelain cup and saucer, circa 1755-60

each piece well painted in enamels, probably after Rugendas, with an equestrian figure with sword unsheathed, a battle taking place in the background, within a gilt scroll and trellis border, the scroll handle and rims edged in gilding, gilt tower marks

very minor wear to gilding.
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For a sucrier painted with the same subjects and probably by the same hand, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, see Soil de Moriamé, Delplace and de Formanoir, La Manufacture Impériale et Royale de Tournay, 1937, no.383, p.250