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MEISSEN -Tea bowl and saucer circa 1750 - 1760. Bowl: height 1 3/4", diameter 2 7/8", saucer: diameter 4 5/8"" Mark: crossed swords under glaze blue on cup and saucer, impressed numeral to cup and saucer. Each painted in the workshop of the Hausmaler Franz Ferdinand Mayer of Pressnitz, Bohemia ( active 1745 to after 1776 ) The exteriors of the pieces are decorated in relief with three flowering prunus branches heightened with gilt. Creamy glaze. The saucer and bowl have elaborate calligraphic ,wide gilt scrollwork border typical to the workshop of Mayer. The bowl is circular with a slightly flaring rim. The center of the saucer painted in iron - red, brown, gray, alive - green and yellow with a gentlemen and lady after an allegorical engraving of the senses ( taste ) by Gottfried Bernhard Goz ( Goetz ) of Augsburg. It belongs to the series of so-called Komodiantenteller created on Meissen porcelain by F. F. Mayer. The bowl interior is painted with an unframed naturalist flowers in compact bunch. Iron - red, gray and green enamels predominate. This fine saucer and bowl is characteristic of the highest quality work done by F. F. Mayer, who was a conventional painter with a sideline business as an independent porcelain decorator. It is unlikely that Mayer himself painted all work. His products, and those of his workshop are characterized by large figures painted in a free but meticulous rococo style, often contained within elaborate, wide gilt scroll borders. Condition: Good
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