Fleur en Terrasse Cup & Saucer

This is a superb cup and saucer made by KPM around 1790. Actually a new favorite of mine! KPM used no painters mark like the red orb yet during this period thus you only have the blue scepter and impressed marks most of the time and sometimes as in this case a number as a painters mark. The set is handpainted with one of KPM's best designs the famous Fleur en Terrasse motif with garden flowers all around the cup and saucer and some nice gold trim and a gold medallion in the center of the saucer. Typical handle shape for the period! This is even the best version of this design which also exists in just gold or just grasses and rarely all sort of flowers as in this case. The set is in super condition with almost no wear at all to the gilding - just a manufacturing small flaw in the saucer rim which was gilded over and is of little importance! The cup is 2.375 inches tall and 2.625 inches in diameter. The saucer is 1.125 inches tall and 5.125 inches in diameter. Both are marked underneath with the underglaze blue scepter, an overglaze red 73., some kind of impressed mark I cannot make out and two impressed lines on the footring which are a size indicator they used in the late 18th century this being the second smallest version. The blue scepter mark looks a bit modern but since they painted them by hand they occasionally don't look perfectly 18th century so I consulted with a true expert just in case and he said it is all good so no worries! He also said this was a real beauty :) Please email me for more information or other pictures.