Lot 48. A rare Meissen octagonal two-handled beaker and saucer, circa 1730. Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 (€13,000 - 19,000). Photo: Bonhams.

Painted in a famille verte palette with a bird perched on rockwork flanked by Oriental flowers, the rims with a trellis floral band reserved with panels enclosing flowerheads and leaves, an iron-red flower inside the beaker, caduceus and pseudo-Chinese mark within two concentric circles in underglaze-blue (2) 

Provenance: Edmond de Rothschild Collection;
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 28 March 1977, lot 8;
Acquired in the above sale;
The Collection of Eveline Newgas

A similar octagonal beaker and saucer, also formerly in the Edmond de Rothschild collection, is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 87.).

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