porcelain, 21 items: 10 consommé cups with 10 saucers height: 5,8 cm, Ø13,5 cm, 1 bowl height: 9,8 cm, Ø 18 cm, of octagonal form, the conical body with narrow and wide gilt edging, the interior with gilt painted border with foliage festoons on a white ground, the exterior with purple ground with reserves, containing polychromed landscapes with architectural elements and courtly couples, looking into the distance, lake views with merchants and bucolic landscapes with river, horsemen, and farmers, framed by gilt painted leaf- and strapwork heightened with black, handles heightened with gilt, the undersides with gilt edging, Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords ca. 1735–1740, gilt painter no. 31, former // Geithner jun. 1707–1761 at the Manufactory (Ru)

Lit.: Rainer Rückert, Biographische Daten der Meißener Manufakturisten des 18. Jh., p 108; Lit.: Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen, Coll. Said and Roswitha Marouf, p 226, 227, ill, 96; p 238, 239, ill. 108, 109; Lit.: Patricia Brattig, ed. Meissen Barockes Porzellan, p 358, 359, ill. 177, 178, octagonal teapot, cup and saucer with landscape- and mercantile scenes on a purple ground, Meissen ca. 1740, décor in the manner of Christian Friedrich Herold, 1700–1779, former // two impressed lines in the footring as the mark of Johann Gottlieb Geithner 1707–1761;