A Meissen porcelain tankard with indianische blumen

A Meissen porcelain tankard with indianische blumen

Cylindrical tankard with moulded rim and base and smooth handle. Decorated with cartouche motifs in cobalt blue and gold with gold tendrils on purple lustre ground. Both sides with large, finely painted indianische blumen, the handle with an iron red branch. Blue crossed swords mark (possibly enamel) on the unglazed base. The silver hallmarked 750 and AF. The base cracked. With later vermeil lid and base. H 20.5, H without mountings ca. 16 cm.
Circa 1730.

Provenance

Acquired in 1988 from Kunsthandel Zemlin, Hannover.

Literature

Cf. six opulently painted Chinoiserie tankards with the same underglaze blue cartouche motifs, all dated around 1723/24, in: Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt 1696 - 1775 und die Meissener Porzellanmalerei, Dresden-Leipzig 1996, nos. 104 - 109.
Cf. another similar tankard in the Carabelli collection (in: Pietsch, Frühes Meißener Porzellan, Munich 2000, no. 55).