Tasse à chocolat et soucoupe en porcelaine de Meissen du service 'Gelber Löwe' pour la Cour Saxonne/Polonaise, circa 1755

A Meissen chocolate cup and saucer from the 'Gelber Löwe' service for the Saxon/Polish Court, circa 1755

The flared cup with an ear-shaped handle, decorated in Kakiemon style with the 'Gelber Loewe' pattern, a tiger curling around bamboo facing flowering prunus branches, brown-edged rims, the saucer: 13.6cm; the cup: 6.8cm high crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed 59 to saucer, Warsaw court pantry inventory mark K[önigliche].H[of]. C[onditorei]. in purple to the saucer (minor retouching to saucer) (2)
Footnotes:
For a comprehensive discussion of the history of the 'Gelber Löwe' service for the Saxon/Polish court in the 18th century, see Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), pp. 265-274.

Thirty-six single-handled chocolate beakers and saucers decorated with this pattern were delivered to Warsaw from the Dresden warehouse in June 1756. In September 1760, a further seventy-two single-handled chocolate beakers and saucers marked 'K.H.C.W.' were delivered in Warsaw from the Dresden warehouse (quoted by J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. I (2013), pp. 165-166).

There is some small areas of retouching/spray to the enamels on the saucer (visible only under UV light): to the bamboo and the tiger's tail; to a small section of the tree-stump and six of the narrow, spiky leaves. There is a miniscule flat chip to the rim of the saucer at 8 o'clock; there is a miniscule flake of brown enamel lacking to the edge of the rim at 1 o'clock, as well as some typical scattered very minor wear around the brown edge of the rim.
Otherwise in good condition.