porcelain, 21 items: 10 consommé cups with 10 saucers height: 5,8 cm, Ø 13,5 cm, 1 'kumme' 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 leaf festoons on a white ground, the exterior with purple ground with reserves containing polychrome painted landscapes with architectures and courtly couples, looking into the distance, lake prospects with merchants and bucolic landscapes with river, horsemen and peasants, outlined by gilt painted leaf- and strapwork heightened with black, the handles heightened with gilt, undersurfaces with gilt edging,
Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords ca. 1735-1740,
gilt painter no. 31, Former // Geithner 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, Collection 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 merchant scenes on a purple ground, Meissen ca. 1740, décor in the manner of Chtistian Friedrich Herold, 1700-1779, former two impressed lines in foot ring as a mark of Johann Gottlieb Geithner 1707-1761;