A Meissen tankard, circa 1735-40, with contemporary silver-gilt mounts, North German or Scandinavian painted in the manner of J. G. Heintze, with a continuous ruin landscape, groups of peasants beside a river, an equestrian figure stopping to enquire with a group gathered beneath a sign with an illegible nine-line inscription, ending with the Royal monogram and crossed swords of Augustus III, the handle with a trail of Kakiemon flowers, the mounts with shell thumbpiece and enclosing a coin of 1650 encircled by the inscription 'Judita Margreta R/ Jens Tostensen', 18cm., 7 1/4 in. high
A Meissen tankard, circa 1735-40, with contemporary silver-gilt mounts, North German or Scandinavian painted in the manner of J. G. Heintze, with a continuous ruin landscape, groups of peasants beside a river, an equestrian figure stopping to enquire with a group gathered beneath a sign with an illegible nine-line inscription, ending with the Royal monogram and crossed swords of Augustus III, the handle with a trail of Kakiemon flowers, the mounts with shell thumbpiece and enclosing a coin of 1650 encircled by the inscription 'Judita Margreta R/ Jens Tostensen', 18cm., 7 1/4 in. high
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