Lot 1399
Lot 1399
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TWELVE FRANKENTHAL PORCELAIN COFFEE-CUPS AND ELEVEN SAUCERS

CIRCA 1760, BLUE RAMPANT LION MARK, INCISED LETTERS AND NUMERALS

Price Realised USD 12,500
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USD 1,500 - USD 2,500
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TWELVE FRANKENTHAL PORCELAIN COFFEE-CUPS AND ELEVEN SAUCERS

CIRCA 1760, BLUE RAMPANT LION MARK, INCISED LETTERS AND NUMERALS

Price Realised USD 12,500
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Price Realised USD 12,500
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Details
Each painted with a bird perched on a branch, within gilt line rims; together with a similarly decorated Meissen Marcolini saucer
2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high, the cups
Provenance
Acquired from Alexander Popoff Co., Paris, July 1938.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, 1938-48.
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, acquired December 1960.
Literature
D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, vol. IV, 1992, p. 158, no. 171.
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