250 - Rare Meissen teacup with a miner’s motif on a matching saucer. The body, which is hemispherically domed above the round base, features ear-shaped handles. The front of the cup’s wall and the interior are adorned with large-scale, varied scenes depicting the working lives of Saxon miners. In a wooded rocky landscape, miners are laboriously moving a barrel next to a pile of ore or engaging in conversation by a large vat. Floral decoration on the interior base of the cup and on the exterior wall of the saucer. Fine polychrome painting, likely by Gottlieb Bonaventura Häuer. Saucer bearing the gilder’s mark “N.” Inner rim of the cup with a gold-pointed border. Gold rim. Sword mark. Cup height: 4.7 cm. Saucer diameter: 12 cm.

Rare Meissen teacup with a miner’s motif on a matching saucer. The body, which is hemispherically domed above the round base, features ear-shaped handles. The front of the cup’s wall and the interior are adorned with large-scale, varied scenes depicting the working lives of Saxon miners. In a wooded rocky landscape, miners are laboriously moving a barrel next to a pile of ore or engaging in conversation by a large vat. Floral decoration on the interior base of the cup and on the exterior wall of the saucer. Fine polychrome painting, likely by Gottlieb Bonaventura Häuer. Saucer bearing the gilder’s mark “N.” Inner rim of the cup with a gold-pointed border. Gold rim. Sword mark. Cup height: 4.7 cm. Saucer diameter: 12 cm. See catalog of the German Mining Museum, *Glück Auf!* 18th-century mining porcelain, Middelschulte Collection, no. 65ff; Fabian, Meissen Porcelain with Mining Motifs, pp. 76f., nos. 79 and 80. A rare porcelain tea cup and matching saucer depicting scenes from the life of a Saxon miner, probably painted by G. B. Häuer. Saucer marked with the gold letter “N.” Inner rim of the cup with a gold border. Marked with crossed swords. Meissen. Circa 1745–1750.