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Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain cup and saucer decorated with enamel colours and gilt. On the cup is a continuous landscape with figures and buildings. On the saucer is a landscape vignette with figures and buildings.
Mark: on both pieces, crossed swords in underglaze blue. The number '2' impressed on the saucer. '51' is on the cup, in grey.
C. B. Marlay Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Saucer
Diameter 13.3 cm
Height 2.9 cm
Cup
Height 6.7 cm
Width 7.3 cm
Enamels
Gilt
Hard-paste porcelain
Inscription present: crossed swords
Accession number: MAR.C.45 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 77369
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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