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Lot 104 Dα

A Meissen porcelain lidded cup and saucer as a friendship token

Auction 1193 - overview Berlin
07.05.2022, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale & Berlin Salon
Estimate: 600 € - 800 €
Result: 750 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain lidded cup and saucer as a friendship token

Painted with a depiction of an urn on a column in a wooded landscape, reminiscent of the funeral monument of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Ermenonville, the well of the saucer inscribed "Unsere Freundschaft währe bis dahin" (may our friendship last until then). Blue crossed swords mark with star and 4 (cup), dreher's mark. H with lid 9.2, D of saucer 13.8 cm.
Circa 1790 – 1800.

Provenance

The Hiemisch collection, acquired in 1985 in the USA.