A Part Coffee Service, Meissen, c. 1745/1750

comprising: one coffee pot, five cups and saucers, porcelain, the front of each cup with a quatrefoil cartouche containing various ‘Kauffahrtei’ scenes or landscapes with figures, framed by gilt borders outlined in schwarzlot, scattered flowers, blossoms and insects, gilt rim with a further gilt border to the interior below, the bottom of each cup painted with a further ‘Kauffahrtei’ scene or figures in a landscape within a double iron-red ring, the saucers with corresponding decoration, coffee pot height 17.5 cm, cups height 4.9 cm, saucers diameter 13.1 cm, gilt numeral 5, underglaze-blue crossed-swords marks, one cup foot ring somewhat chipped, further foot rings with minimal chipping, (Hr)

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