A Meissen porcelain hot chocolate beaker and saucer with palace inventory number

A Meissen porcelain hot chocolate beaker and saucer with palace inventory number

Of cinquefoil design, painted with chrysanthemum motifs in Kakiemon polychromy. Blue crossed swords mark, engraved and blackened inventory no. "N=336.w". Each with a restored rim chip. H cup 7.8, diameter saucer 14.7 cm.
1729 - 31.

In the palace inventory, this lot is listed as part of "Seven dozen and 8 items of chocolate cups, scalopped, with artichoke leaves, with colourful flowers, 3 inch deep, 4 inch in diam: and seven dozen and 1 pieces of the same saucers, 1 3/4th inch deep, 6 1/2 inch in diam: No. 336. some defective".

Literature

Cf. Bursche, Meissen. Steinzeug und Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts. Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Berlin 1980, cat. no. 215.
Cf. Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in: Keramos 153/1996, p. 57.
Cf. cat. Frühes Meissner Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, Munich 1997, cat. no. 133.