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Message:: [QUOTE="Eric Haefli, post: 3720515, member: 15354"]Based on what I read in Robert E. Rontgen's book, The Book of Meissen, I think the porcelain piece was created as a blank at Meissen, was deemed second or third in quality, and somehow made it into the decorator market back then, and was decorated.  Rontgen's book uses an example almost like this one. In Chapter 8 about imitations, on Page 227, a photo shows the bottom of a plate and how a Meissen mark with scratched lines was ground down to try to hide the second scratched lines.  Then, on Page 108, a photo of the same piece from Page 227 is shown, described as "Cup and saucer with outside painting, late 19th century." While the painting of the cup and saucer on Page 108 are not exactly like the painting of the piece in this thread, the style is the same.  I have seen it referred to as Wattaeu ... painted panels of romantic scenes with people. So, based on Robert E. Rontgen's book, my vote is that the porcelain is made by Meissen, was a second or third in quality, was legally or illegally obtained by a decorating studio, and was painted by a decorating studio (not Meissen) in the late 19th century.[/QUOTE]