AN IMPORTANT MEISSEN CUP AND SAUCER, the cup painted with a group of merchants at a quayside, the saucer painted with two figures in a landscape with a church spire both framed by brightly painted scrollwork, crossed swords in underglaze blue and painter's mark W in puce to both, impressed 24 to cup and 54 to saucer, circa 1745. Provenance: The Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson Collection, sold Christie's, London, 1st June 1992, lot 56, exhibited: Orlando Museum of Art, 27th March 1988 to 12th February 1989, cat. no. 66.