A pair of Meissen porcelain beakers and saucers, circa 1735

the saucers each finely painted with a chinoiserie figure and blackamoor and attendant on a gilt scrollwork bracket filled with Böttger lustre embellished with iron-red and purple scrolls, the beakers similarly painted with figures on brackets, the saucers with small flower sprigs to the undersides, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue,

With Elfriede Langeloh, Weinheim.

One beaker with minute chip to underside of rim. To the other beaker, there are two areas of spray to the outside with associated re-touching to the gilding. One saucer has a flat shallow chip to the inside edge of the footrim, both saucers have some typical very minor wear to the lustre.
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The particularly fine painting on the present beakers and saucers can be compared to the decoration which was used in the celebrated tea, coffee and chocolate service of Elector Clemens August of Cologne. A pair of beakers and saucers with close decoration was in the E. A. Titgemeyer Collection, Osnabruck, sold at Bonhams London, 7th December 2011, lot 141.