A MEISSEN CREAM JUG, COVER AND STAND, CIRCA 1740

A MEISSEN CREAM JUG, COVER AND STAND, CIRCA 1740

painted with fête champêtre vignettes after Watteau, polychrome decorated with couples in sepia monochrome landscapes, among scattered ombrierte Holzscnitt Blumen and insects in the manner of Johann Gottfried Klinger, the cover and stand with gitterwerk borders reserved with quatrefoil cartouches painted in purpurmalerei with estuary scenes, with bud finial, scroll handle and leaf-moulded spout, the pot supported by three lion's paw feet

14cm. high, the stand 17.7 cm. diameter

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