C1890 8 Dresden Demitasse Espresso Cups and Saucers Turkish Coffee

  
C1890 8 Dresden Demitasse Espresso Cups and Saucers Turkish Coffee. These are small demitasse cups and saucers typically used today for strong coffee in various countries, they're great. All hand painted 4.75" wide saucers, 2.25" tall and wide cups. One cup matches on one side but not the other, it was made by the same company but looks to have been decorated by another. One saucer has a small chip and associated hairline, it's on top right of group pic. NO other chips cracks, restorations, or other issues. Very rare to find a set of these. The term "Dresden porcelain" refers more to an artistic movement than a particular line of figurines or dinnerware. Several decorating studios emerged in this Saxony capital in response to the rise of "Romanticism" during the 19th century. Dresden was an important center of this artistic, cultural and intellectual movement, which attracted painters, sculptors, poets, philosophers and porcelain decorators alike. In 1883, in response to the exciting developments happening all around them, four prominent ceramic decorators registered the famous blue crown Dresden mark, and the widely popular "Dresden style" was born.