An early Meissen double-handled beaker, 1713-15. Photo: Bonhams.

Each side applied with moulded flowering branches, 9.2cm high (flat chips to footrim). Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 (€2,500 - 3,700)

A teapot and cover applied with similar moulded flowering branches is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 111), and another teapot of a different shape was sold by Phillips London, 7 December 1994, lot 19.

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