A collection of Dresden porcelain cabaret or tea service items, dating from the late 19th century. The set is decorated with a turquoise ground, known as bleu céleste, featuring four hand-painted quatrefoil panels. These panels alternate between 18th-century style equestrian and pastoral scenes in the manner of Watteau and polychrome floral bouquets. Each panel is enclosed within elaborate gilt scrollwork and trellis-patterned borders. The collection comprises a large lobed and scalloped oval tray with twin handles, a lobed teacup with a scrolled handle and matching saucer, a tapered teacup with an angular geometric handle and matching saucer, and a circular covered sugar bowl with a pink ribbon-form finial. An additional circular lid with a floral bud finial is also present. Several pieces bear blue underglaze marks consisting of crossed lines in the style of the Meissen crossed swords mark, which is characteristic of 19th-century Dresden production.
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