A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED CHINOISERIE TANKARD AND COVER
CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNTS 18TH CENTURY
A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED CHINOISERIE TANKARD AND COVER CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNTS 18TH CENTURY Probably painted by J. G. Höroldt with an Oriental seated on an elevated canopied chair, with children and attendants and three Orientals at a table on a terrace below, within a shaped circular cartouche with Böttger -lustre panels and edged with gilt and shadowed iron-red scrolls, flanked by flowering shrubs issuing from rockwork with Böttger lustre sections, the cover with a circular gilt-edged medallion painted with chinoiserie figures within iron-red and gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk borders, the hinged silver-gilt mount with a foliate thumbpiece (small chip to upper rim of tankard, slight wear to gilding) 6 ¾ in. (17.7 cm.) high overall
A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED CHINOISERIE TANKARD AND COVER
CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNTS 18TH CENTURY
A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED CHINOISERIE TANKARD AND COVER CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNTS 18TH CENTURY Probably painted by J. G. Höroldt with an Oriental seated on an elevated canopied chair, with children and attendants and three Orientals at a table on a terrace below, within a shaped circular cartouche with Böttger -lustre panels and edged with gilt and shadowed iron-red scrolls, flanked by flowering shrubs issuing from rockwork with Böttger lustre sections, the cover with a circular gilt-edged medallion painted with chinoiserie figures within iron-red and gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk borders, the hinged silver-gilt mount with a foliate thumbpiece (small chip to upper rim of tankard, slight wear to gilding) 6 ¾ in. (17.7 cm.) high overall
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