A MEISSEN CYLINDRICAL MONTH BEAKER (Monatsbecher) for May with loop handle, painted with lovers seated in a garden landscape, the man seated in an armchair playing the violin, his companion with a fan, a dog drinking from a pond before them and inscribed in iron-red Majus within a gilt scroll and foliage cartouche flanked by two Callot dwarves, one disguised as a beggar, the other playing the violin (star crack in base), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 24 and gilt No. 1, circa 1750