A Meissen porcelain tankard with Turkish horsemen - image-1

Lot 1417 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tankard with Turkish horsemen

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 5.375 € (incl. premium)

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.