A Meissen armorial two-handled beaker and saucer from the Albani-Borromeo Service Circa 1730-35, blue crossed swords marks, the saucer with impressed * mark to footrim Painted and gilded with shaped escutcheons with the accollée arms of Albani and Borromeo against ermine-line robes surmounted by a coronet supported by a putto, above pierced strapwork with a mask and basket of flowers flanked by palm fronds and festooned with garlands, the reverse with Orientals at various pursuits on a terrace, below a border of gilt interlocking scrolls, the gilt double-scroll handles surrounded by scattered indianische Blumen , the interior richly gilt, the saucer similarly decorated with scattered indianische Blumen about the central arms within a border of gilt interlocking scrolls, the underside with three Kakiemon flowering branches below a similar gilt border (minute flaking to gilt rim of beaker, saucer with minute flaking to enamel of a flower)
A Meissen armorial two-handled beaker and saucer from the Albani-Borromeo Service Circa 1730-35, blue crossed swords marks, the saucer with impressed * mark to footrim Painted and gilded with shaped escutcheons with the accollée arms of Albani and Borromeo against ermine-line robes surmounted by a coronet supported by a putto, above pierced strapwork with a mask and basket of flowers flanked by palm fronds and festooned with garlands, the reverse with Orientals at various pursuits on a terrace, below a border of gilt interlocking scrolls, the gilt double-scroll handles surrounded by scattered indianische Blumen , the interior richly gilt, the saucer similarly decorated with scattered indianische Blumen about the central arms within a border of gilt interlocking scrolls, the underside with three Kakiemon flowering branches below a similar gilt border (minute flaking to gilt rim of beaker, saucer with minute flaking to enamel of a flower)
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