A Meissen single-handled beaker and saucer, circa 1730

Each superbly painted with a European landscape scene within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche embellished with iron-red and purple foliate scrollwork, gilt scrollwork borders, the beaker with a gilt ear-shaped handle with a bird overhead and flanked by indianische Blumen, the saucer: 14.3cm diam.; the beaker: 7.7cm high. crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue (beaker) and blue enamel (saucer), gilt numeral 1. to both, incised / inside footrim of saucer (2)

Provenance:
The Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg, sold in these Rooms, 26 May 2010, lot 44

Literature:
D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, I (1999), no. 78

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, The Hoffmeister Collection, 1999-2009