Description
The chinoiserie, or pseudo-Chinese scenes, may have been painted on the gold ground by a Hausmaler, or independent decorator, working outside the Meissen porcelain factory on blank Meissen porcelain.
Provenance
Shandon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland; Henry Walters, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[cup and saucer] crossed swords in blue