Lot 82. A Meissen beaker and saucer, circa 1728. Estimate £4,500 - 5,500 (€5,700 - 6,900). Unsold. Photo Bonhams.

Each finely painted with a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche edged with iron-red, purple and yellow scrollwork and swags, the gilt handle of the beaker flanked by indianische Blumen and a bird in flight, the reverse of the saucer with iron-red indianische Blumen, gilt strap- and scrollwork borders to the rims, the beaker: 7.5cm high; the saucer: 12.5cm diam.,crossed swords marks within concentric circles, gilt numeral 1. to both (2) 

Provenance: Said and Roswitha Marouf Collection, La Jolla

Literature: Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 87

Bonhams. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS, 15 Jun 2016, 14:00 BST, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET