P051 - MEISSEN TURQUOISE-GROUND QUATREFOIL CUP AND SAUCER

 

Circa 1735, blue crossed swords marks, gilder’s B1. to each

Each painted with figures in landscape within gilt quatrefoil cartouches, Gitterwerk bands to the interior rims

Cup: 3 in. (7.6 cm) high

Saucer: 5 3/8 (13.7 cm) wide

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 189, plate 51, fig. 210.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” at The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art between June 1955 and May 1960