DESCRIPTION: Meissen porcelain tea dishes: two tea bowls decorated with floral motifs, martial scenes, and gilt accents; one saucer decorated with a seaside scene, floral motifs, and gilt accents. Each piece is marked on underside with blue crossed swords hallmark and bears a sticker with previous provenance (see below). Provenance: Collection of Martin and Helene Schwalberg, owners of The Meissen Shop founded on June 23, 1978 on Worth Ave. in Palm Beach and closed in 2005. From Akama.com : The Schwalbergs are premier experts on Meissen porcelain and have given many illustrated lectures at museums, antique clubs and appraisers associations. Objects acquired from The Meissen Shop are in several museums around the country including the Wark Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain in the Cummer Gallery of Art in Jacksonville, Florida, the H. Lloyd Hawkins, Jr. Meissen Collection of over 350 Meissen figures at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Kathy and Ronald Gillmeister Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. Previous provenance: Mr. & Mrs. H. G. Terwilliger Collection CIRCA: 20th Century ORIGIN: Germany DIMENSIONS: (Bowls) H: 1.75" D: 3" (Saucer) H: 1.25" D: 5.25" Have a similar item to sell? Contact: Info@Akibaantiques.com . CONDITION: One tea bowl has received a repair as evidenced by hairline cracks through the piece and chips at the cracks' edges on the rim and cracks have been embellished with foliage motifs; saucer has a small chip on the rim. See lot description for details on item condition. More detailed condition requests can be obtained via email ( info@akibaantiques.com ) or SMS(305)-332-9274. Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Akiba Antiques shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.