A MEISSEN CREAM-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1723-24
Of squat baluster form, with a moulded gilt-scroll handle and three paw feet, painted in the manner associated with J.G. Mehlhorn with elegant figures strolling before a hexagonal baroque pavilion with a flight of steps behind and avenues of trees and buildings in the distance within an elongated quatrefoil cartouche with gilt scrolls enclosing Böttger-lustre panels issuing shaded iron-red scrolls, the handle flanked by sprays of indianische Blumen, each with a bird perched in the foliage, the domed cover with two vignettes of figures in parkland below an iron-red concentric double circle and gilt finial, gilt rims (small gilt chip to upper rim of cream-pot probably from time of manufacture, slight wear to gilding)
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
A MEISSEN CREAM-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1723-24
Of squat baluster form, with a moulded gilt-scroll handle and three paw feet, painted in the manner associated with J.G. Mehlhorn with elegant figures strolling before a hexagonal baroque pavilion with a flight of steps behind and avenues of trees and buildings in the distance within an elongated quatrefoil cartouche with gilt scrolls enclosing Böttger-lustre panels issuing shaded iron-red scrolls, the handle flanked by sprays of indianische Blumen, each with a bird perched in the foliage, the domed cover with two vignettes of figures in parkland below an iron-red concentric double circle and gilt finial, gilt rims (small gilt chip to upper rim of cream-pot probably from time of manufacture, slight wear to gilding)
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
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