Meissen porcelain chocolate cup and saucer from... Lot 17
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Meissen porcelain chocolate cup and saucer from the 'Gelber Löwe' service for the Saxon/Polish Court, circa 1755
A Meissen chocolate cup and saucer from the 'Gelber Löwe' service for the Saxon/Polish Court, circa 1755
The flared cup with an ear-shaped handle, decorated in Kakiemon style with the 'Gelber Loewe' pattern, a tiger curling around bamboo facing flowering prunus branches, brown-edged rims, the saucer: 13.6cm; the cup: 6.8cm high crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed 59 to saucer, Warsaw court pantry inventory mark K[önigliche].H[of]. C[onditorei]. in purple to the saucer (minor retouching to saucer) (2)
Footnotes:
For a comprehensive discussion of the history of the 'Gelber Löwe' service for the Saxon/Polish court in the 18th century, see Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), pp. 265-274.
Thirty-six single-handled chocolate beakers and saucers decorated with this pattern were delivered to Warsaw from the Dresden warehouse in June 1756. In September 1760, a further seventy-two single-handled chocolate beakers and saucers marked 'K.H.C.W.' were delivered in Warsaw from the Dresden warehouse (quoted by J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. I (2013), pp. 165-166).
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