Pair of coffee cups and saucers with vine decor. Meissen. 1817- 1824. Porcelain, glazed, painted in polychrome onglaze colours and partially decorated with gold. Underneath each cup with the sword mark in underglaze blue, partly with embossed figures and painter's figures. The cups in classicistic vase form and with a raised and volute-shaped swan's handle with leaf decoration in relief. The walls of the cups and the flags of the saucers with vine decoration all around. Gilding partially rubbed. The onglaze painting partially crazed, with isolated missing parts and partly spotty paint application. One cup with a fire crack on the underside. Isolated irregularities in the glaze. Dimensions: cup H. 9,8 cm, saucer D. 13,2 cm.

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