A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted beaker, circa 1723

The slender form with flared rim, finely painted on each side with a European landscape scene within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red scrollwork, one side with a river flanked by cliffs, possibly depicting the 'sächische Schweiz', the reverse with two figures by trees on colourful rockwork, gilt scrollwork border inside rim, silver-gilt mount to foot, 7.5cm high (miniscule rim chip)