A BÖTTGER CREAM-POT, COVER AND STAND painted in the manner of J.G. Mehlhorn, the cream-pot with everted rim and scroll handle, painted with three panels with figures in landscapes, one with a sunset, within gilt cartouches with Böttger lustre panels and puce Laub-und-Bandelwerk, on three paw feet, the cover similarly decorated and the stand with an extensive river landscape and fortifications among hills, within a similar cartouche, the border with elaborate interlocking gilt scrollwork and flowerheads and the underside with indianische Blumen (chip to rim of cream-pot), gilder's 3 to all pieces Dreher's to stand, circa 1725

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A BÖTTGER CREAM-POT, COVER AND STAND painted in the manner of J.G. Mehlhorn, the cream-pot with everted rim and scroll handle, painted with three panels with figures in landscapes, one with a sunset, within gilt cartouches with Böttger lustre panels and puce Laub-und-Bandelwerk, on three paw feet, the cover similarly decorated and the stand with an extensive river landscape and fortifications among hills, within a similar cartouche, the border with elaborate interlocking gilt scrollwork and flowerheads and the underside with indianische Blumen (chip to rim of cream-pot), gilder's 3 to all pieces Dreher's to stand, circa 1725
the stand 7¼in. (18.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, no. 130 and 131 for pieces painted by the same hand. For a discussion of J.G. Mehlhorn's and J.G. Höroldt's work, see William W. Blackburn, 'The length of J.G. Herold's career as an artist and other notes', Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, July 1957, no. 39, pl. XVI, fig. 41 and p. 36

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