BERLIN
Porcelain cup and saucer decorated on the cup with a portrait of the Russian Empress Catherine II in profile in black on a pink background in a medallion surrounded by a crown of oak leaves, The center of the saucer decorated with the monogram EII of the Empress under an imperial crown in a medallion with pink background surrounded by a crown of oak leaves, the edges decorated with garlands of flowers between gold nets, the cover in the form of fruit and foliage with gold background.
Marked : sceptre in blue and Z in purple.
It is kept in a leather case.
18th century, circa 1780.
H. 10 cm, D. 13,4 cm.
It is accompanied by two handwritten mentions:
A porcelain cup bearing the figure of Catherine II of Russia this cup had belonged to Mrs. Elisabeth
and Mme de Beauregard, née de Misery, a relative of Mme Dary, née d'Herteloup, attached to Mme Adélaïde who gave her the Berlin cup and the fan of Marie-Antoinette
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