Description
Magnificent Meissen decorative cup with relief frieze on saucer. Cookie porcelain, partially glazed. Kyathos shape, raised band handle with palmette attachment. The wall with a surrounding frieze of antique-style, figurative, scenic depictions over a wide palmette border, the mirror with corresponding palmette decoration. Fine, white relief overlay on a matt, cappuccino-colored background. Wide gold rim. Model no. Q 88, crossed swords mark. Cup h. 8.5 cm. In the style of the classicist relief overlays of antique motifs on jasperware by the English manufacturer Wedgwood in Etruria. Cf. Jedding, Meissen Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, fig. 24, p. 51; Siemen, cat. Von den Ursprüngen, no. 25, p. 230, Berling, Festschrift, fig. 198. A splendid biscuit porcelain cup and saucer with applied decor of classical figural scenes. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1900.
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Magnificent Meissen decorative cup with relief frieze on saucer. Cookie porcelain, partially glazed. Kyathos shape, raised band handle with palmette attachment. The wall with a surrounding frieze of antique-style, figurative, scenic depictions over a wide palmette border, the mirror with corresponding palmette decoration. Fine, white relief overlay on a matt, cappuccino-colored background. Wide gold rim. Model no. Q 88, crossed swords mark. Cup h. 8.5 cm. In the style of the classicist relief overlays of antique motifs on jasperware by the English manufacturer Wedgwood in Etruria. Cf. Jedding, Meissen Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, fig. 24, p. 51; Siemen, cat. Von den Ursprüngen, no. 25, p. 230, Berling, Festschrift, fig. 198. A splendid biscuit porcelain cup and saucer with applied decor of classical figural scenes. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1900.
