A GERMAN PORCELAIN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED TANKARD

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A GERMAN PORCELAIN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED TANKARD
by Johann Erhard II Heuglin (Seling, 2096), Augsburg, 1739-1743

The cylindrical Meissen white-porcelain body panited with Golddekor chinoiserie decoration, the foot with a silver-gilt rim, the silver-gilt cover with bifurcated scroll and lion's head thumbpiece and engraved with a border of strapwork and stylised flowers and applied with four male and female portrait medallions, the centre chased with shaped-oval medallion representing a mameluk soldier and dromadery, within engraved strapwork cartouche, porcelain slightly cracked - 16.5 cm high

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The Golddekor decoration was probably executed in Augsburg by the Seutter workshop around 1735. Augsburg was the centre for this type of decoration and the Seutter workshop was especially skilled at reproducing the chinoiserie designs produced the artist and pattern painter Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt.

A similar example is illustrated in H. Seling, Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529-1868, Munich, 1980, vol. I, no. 1014, and vol. II, pl.

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