Lot 22 , A group of Meissen Marcolini period tea and coffee wares, 1774-1814, height 8.5cm (22), occasional minor damage(-)

A group of Meissen Marcolini period tea and coffee wares, 1774-1814, each painted with Deutsche Blumen, comprising a tea caddy and cover, a sugar bowl and cover, a milk jug, a slops bowl, a teapot and cover, a coffee pot and cover, together with four similar tea cups and saucers with gilt rims, all with underglaze crossed swords and asterisk marks, various impressed marks, together with a Meissen flower painted bachelor's teapot and cover, c.1760 (damaged), underglaze blue crossed swords mark, height 8.5cm (22), occasional minor damage
Estimate £200-300

Milk jug, 13cm
Slops bowl, 16.5cm
Teapot and cover, 19cm
Coffee pot and cover, 24.5cm

Tea caddy cover has minor losses to bud finial and a firing crack to rim.
Coffee/hotwater pot- small splinter chip to spout.
Milk jug- ground off spot and 2 hairline cracks to the rim.
Teapot cover- tiny losses to bud finial
None of the pieces above bear cancellation marks.

All of the saucers have varying degress of wear to the gilt rims.One cup has a large and a small splinter chip to inside edge bud and a firing crack to the base of the handle. One saucer has a nick to the rim. None of these saucers and cups have cancellation marks. The teapot is missing a large section of the spout, has a broken and restuck handle and a chip to the cover.


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Sold for £190