A Meissen porcelain tankard with Turkish horsemen - image-1

Lot 707 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tankard with Turkish horsemen

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €

A Meissen porcelain tankard with Turkish horsemen

Cylindrical tankard with gilt tendril cartouches surrounding battle scenes with exotic cavalrymen amid woodcut flowers. Lustre mark H:L:R:v.K. On the unglazed base. H ca. 16 cm, with silver gilt mountings (presumably by Elias Adam, hallmarked Dresden, mid-18th C.) H 20.3 cm.
The porcelain pre-1723, the decor presumably ca. 1740.

Provenance

Hessian collection.

Literature

An earlier tankard with identical mountings in Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, New York 2008, no. 164.