The Sir Bruno Welby Collection of Porcelain - 6th February 2025
Lot 1537
Three Meissen cups and a saucer, c.1770-80, the saucer probably painted by Johann Georg Loehnig with
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £315
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Description
Three Meissen cups and a saucer, c.1770-80, the saucer probably painted by Johann Georg Loehnig with a scene from Reinicke Fuchs, one cup painted with a young shepherdess beside her flock beneath a green ribbon border, another with a titled panel of a wolf and a lamb, a coffee cup with jolly peasant figures and a dog, blue crossed swords and star marks for the Marcolini period, 13.3cm max. (4)
Reinicke Fuchs was a narrative poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about a cunning fox.