An early Meissen beaker and saucer, circa 1720. Photo: Bonhams.

Decorated in the workshop of Georg Funcke, Dresden, with bands of gilt foliate scrollwork, each moulded with a stiff-leaf border around the footrim heightened in gilding, the interior of the beaker and the top of the saucer with a burnished gilt ground, the saucer: 14.5cm diam.; the beaker: 8.1cm high, crossed swords mark in blue enamel to beaker (2). Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 (€5,000 - 7,400)

Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 3 December 1982, lot 134 (part)

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