A rare Meissen two-handled chocolate beaker and saucer, circa 1723-25. Photo Bonhams

The beaker decorated on each side with a chinoiserie scene within a gilt scrollwork and Böttger-lustre cartouche edged with purple and iron-red scrollwork, the saucer with a similar large cartouche, both moulded with lobed borders in gilding and blue, formal gilt borders to the rims, the beaker: 8cm high; the saucer: 13.2cm diam., incised / inside footrim of saucer (2).  Lot 10. Estimate: £8,000 - 12,000 / €9,700 - 15,000 / US$ 13,000 - 19,000

Notes: A two-handled beaker and saucer from the same service in a private collection is illustrated by Patricia Brattig (ed.), Meissen Barockes Porzellan (2010), no. 142.