$45.00
A lovely antique cup and saucer set by the Dutch ceramics maker Societe Ceramique Maestricht in Holland. The cup is chocolate (brown) transferware images of a couple sitting for tea as titled "The Tea Drinker" and another image of the man as a sheep herder with various floral and block images surrounding both the cup and saucer.$149.00
A beautiful lidded chocolate cup, or sometimes called loving cup, with lid and double handles hand painted in bas relief blow out form with mythological Roman images and a putti on the lid. Fabulous Capodimonte Italian porcelain cup.$168.00
A beautiful mold blown, high relief hand painted cup and saucer set with an attached branch style handle, showing a mythological scene of a chariot carrying a man in a colored toga being pulled by swans in the water while a nymph appears sprawled on the waves as cherubs run along the side and back, possibly a Neptune Poseidon scene. The saucer shows different colored medallions along the entire border. A wonderfully executed Italian porcelain set.
Circa 1830-1890
Condition
There is an inclusion on the rim, you can see a dark line, the line can not be felt by the finger, it is on both sides, the color appears to match the same paint used for the decoration, the interior looks like faded paint on the outside the paint is identical but very very close inspection shows a very small surface crack to the glaze only. Original to the making
Backstamp: Blue N with crown, mark used by Richard Ginori Doccia, Florence
Measurements:
Saucer is approx. 5 1/4" in diameter and the cup is just under 3" high with a 2 3/4"diam