Details
Comprising a pair of chocolate-cups and a pair of saucers, each painted with European figures in landscapes, the cups with oval gilt lustre surrounds, the saucers with elaborate scrollwork cartouches, all within further iron-red and brown scrollwork, the interior of the cups with Gitterwerk borders and the rim of the saucers with a trellis and diaper band; the single saucer with a finely painted stag in landscape within a gilt scrollwork cartouche and further gilt, iron-red and puce scrolls, Gitterwerk rim
5 in. (12.5 cm.) diameter, the pair of saucers
Provenance
Gift from Rosenberg & Stiebel, 16 December 1969 (the stag saucer).
Acquired by Annie Laurie Aitken (1900-1984) and Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) from the above (the stag saucer).
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