Cup with saucer with tomato red ground
Underglaze blue swords mark, saucer: Ø 13 cm and 2,8 cm high; cup: press number "11"
Provenance: Coll. Britzke, p. 90 f. = Bonhams 14.12.2016 No. 88.
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 (our cup with saucer is from the Ringier service, press number as on ours); 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.