A Saucer, Vienna, Imperial Manufactory

porcelain, body with conical lip, fine gilt edging, gold pastose strings of beads, 4 white reserves outlined by fine gold painted laurel leaves, containing gold vases with gold flowers, gold leaves and floral garlands with gold strings of beads, 4 gold rhombs with pearls and foliate décor, the well with gold rosette on white ground, surrounded by bright and matte gold spiral band and string of pearls on light turquoise ground, height 2.5 cm, diameter 13 cm Vienna, Imperial Manufactory, underglaze blue Austrian shield, dated 1802, Sorgenthal era, turner no. 39 Ferdinand Ebenberger 1783–1804 (Ru)