A very rare Meissen gilt-metal-mounted circular pot and cover, circa 1740
Finely painted with battle scenes, separated on the pot by gilt shaped trellis panels with a purple wash enclosing a mask on a tapering column on a pedestal and flanked by scrollwork, on the cover by gilt scrollwork motifs edged in black, surmounted by feathers and enclosing a lustre-like oval medallion, gilt finial and rims, the pot mounted on the rim and foot and fitted with a gilt-metal liner, 13cm high; 15.3cm across, crossed swords mark in blue (the pot cleanly restuck through the middle) (2)
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Another example of this very rare form, decorated with landscape and Kauffahrtei scenes in more conventional scrollwork cartouches and with a different finial, is in Schloss Belvedere, Weimar (R. Müller-Krumbach, Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Die Sammlung in Scloss Belvedere (1973), ill. 16). A similarly decorated bowl is in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim, Munich (published by C. Bodinek, Rafinesse im Akkord, II (2018), ills. 279a, 312b, 313b and 315a and b; the scenes after engravings by G.P. Rugendas and Johann Andreas Thelott).