A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with scenes from Aesop's fables - image-1
A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with scenes from Aesop's fables - image-2
A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with scenes from Aesop's fables - image-1A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with scenes from Aesop's fables - image-2

Lot 1177 Dα

A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with scenes from Aesop's fables

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 600 € - 800 €
Result: 1.625 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with scenes from Aesop's fables

Cup and saucer painted with scenes of the dog and his shadow and the lion and the goat in laurel medallions. Blue crossed swords mark with star, gold S. H of cup 6.4, D of saucer 13.5 cm.
1774 - 80.

Provenance

"Auctioned by Sotheby's London on 22nd April 1980, lot 154.
The Hiemisch collection."

Literature

"A similar small service in a carrying case sold in Lempertz Cologne auction 888 on 18th May 2006, lot 105.
The large tea and coffee service with motifs after La Fontaine and Aesop from a private collection in Hannover, to which this beaker also belonged, sold in Lempertz Cologne auction 919 on 16th May 2008, lot 111."