A Höchst teacup and saucer and a Fürstenberg teacup and saucer, circa 1765

the Höchst example finely painted with birds perched in branches and small scattered insects, crowned wheel marks in underglaze-blue, incised marks, the Fürstenberg cup and saucer painted with landscape vignettes with formal gilt scrollwork borders at the rims, F marks in underglaze-blue, incised and impressed marks, together with a Meissen Hausmaler teabowl, circa 1740, the decoration slighty later, painted in underglaze-blue in the Fels- und Vogel pattern, enriched in enamels and gilding in the workshop of F. J. Ferner, the interior depicting a hilltop fortress and figure, the exterior with flowers and a cockerel

The Höchst, with F. I Block, Knightsbridge (paper label to saucer.)

The Furstenberg cup with rim chip and associated hairline crack. The Höchst, in good condition, no damage noted. The Hausmaler teabowl with some typical minor wear to gilding.
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