A MEISSEN CYLINDRICAL MONTH BEAKER (Monatsbecher) for April with loop handle, painted with a man holding a spade beside a sundial in an extensive landscape with farmers sowing seed and inscribed in iron-red Aprilis within an elaborate gilt scroll and foliage cartouche flanked by two Callot dwarves, one sowing seed, the other feeding a cat (base of handle cracked and with associated chip), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 24, circa 1750

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A MEISSEN CYLINDRICAL MONTH BEAKER (Monatsbecher) for April with loop handle, painted with a man holding a spade beside a sundial in an extensive landscape with farmers sowing seed and inscribed in iron-red Aprilis within an elaborate gilt scroll and foliage cartouche flanked by two Callot dwarves, one sowing seed, the other feeding a cat (base of handle cracked and with associated chip), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 24, circa 1750
8cm. high

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