Cup with saucer with tomato red ground

Meissen ca. 1740, Ø saucer 13.2 cm, cup 4.1 cm high, underglaze blue swords mark, unidentified symbol of a modeler

Malcolm Gutter wrote in The Antique Collector (2/1989 pp. 30 - 38) about the very rare ground colour tomato red. He comes to the conclusion that in total only 5 different tea, coffee and/or chocolate services can be proven.

Cf. Gutter catalogue no. 69 and p. 52; Coll. Ringier no. 98; Grassi no. 163; Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt 1983 no. 48; KGM Cologne no. 40

According to Newman (Vol. I p. 28), the tomato red ground was only used from 1740 onwards.