Each painted with the coat-of-arms on a shield surmounted by puce scrolling foliage and above tied palm branches and with scattered flower-sprays, the rims with gilt borders with scroll and line ornament

The Weitnauer Collection, Christie's, Geneva, 11 November 1985, lot 358.

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Lot Essay

The right-hand part of the coat-of arms on this piece perhaps belongs to the Da Ponte family. A coffee-cup and saucer from this service is illustrated by Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg, 1999, Vol. II, pp. 518-519, no. 338.