A Meissen Tankard, circa 1735, with silver mount, probably Dresden

painted in the style of Christian Friedrich Herold with a river landscape scene within an elaborate cartouche filled with Böttger lustre picked out in gilding and black enamel, flanked on either side with a branch of indianische Blumen and a bird and insect in flight, with a gilt scroll band at the rim,

Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, p. 58

Overall in fine condition with a tiny amount of wear to the gilding.
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A closely comparable tankard, probably decorated by the same hand, was sold by Lempertz, Cologne, 3-5th May 1934, lot 21