A Meissen Tankard, circa 1725, with silver-gilt mounts painted in the manner of Johann Gregorius Höroldt with a large chinoiserie scene of five figures in a landscape within a quatrefoil cartouche filled with Böttger lustre picked out in gilding, embellished with iron-red scrollwork, flanked by six birds in flight and small insects, the handle painted with a branch of indianische Blumen, with gilt scroll borders at the rims, the mount with régence type decoration of loose acanthus around the rim, inscribed 'Peter Ehlers = aùs der Wilster = Marsch, Anno 1746 den 17 ten May', framing a central inscription 'Renovirt d. 17t May 1846 . von Matthias Ehlers', 19.6cm., 7 3/4 in. high
A Meissen Tankard, circa 1725, with silver-gilt mounts painted in the manner of Johann Gregorius Höroldt with a large chinoiserie scene of five figures in a landscape within a quatrefoil cartouche filled with Böttger lustre picked out in gilding, embellished with iron-red scrollwork, flanked by six birds in flight and small insects, the handle painted with a branch of indianische Blumen, with gilt scroll borders at the rims, the mount with régence type decoration of loose acanthus around the rim, inscribed 'Peter Ehlers = aùs der Wilster = Marsch, Anno 1746 den 17 ten May', framing a central inscription 'Renovirt d. 17t May 1846 . von Matthias Ehlers', 19.6cm., 7 3/4 in. high
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