An early Meissen double-handled beaker, circa 1720. Photo: Bonhams.

The lower half moulded with a fluted band in gilding and purple lustre, the handles embellished in gilding, the inside rim with a formal gilt border, 8.4cm high. Estimate £1,500 - 2,500 (€1,900 - 3,100)

Provenance: Stanley Ungar Collection, Christie's New York, 23 April 1998, lot 9 (part)

An undecorated early Meissen beaker of the same form with its saucer is in the Warda Stevens Stout Collection, Memphis (C. Nelson/L. Roberts, A History of Eighteenth-Century German Porcelain (2013), cat. no. 5).

Bonhams. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS. London, New Bond Street, 18 Jun 2014 - http://www.bonhams.com/