Lot Essay
See Christie's London, 21 September 1992, lot 14 for a tankard from the Korthaus Collection similarly painted, gilt and mounted
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, THE COVER INSET WITH COINS DATED 1707 AND 1708
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A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MEISSEN GOLD-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE TANKARD (WALZENKRUG)
Circa 1730, blue crossed swords mark, the cover inset with coins dated 1707 and 1708
Of cylindrical form with loop handle, painted with a Chinaman and attendants standing before a fence and with branches of flowering peony and prunus below a trellis band reserved with single flowerheads, the silver-gilt hinged cover set with a silver thaler of George Ludwig, Electory of Saxony, dated 1707 encircled by eight smaller coins dated 1708 within a shaped gadrooned border, the thumb rest as split scrolls, the footrim mount as chased stiff leaftips
7in. (19cm.) high
Circa 1730, blue crossed swords mark, the cover inset with coins dated 1707 and 1708
Of cylindrical form with loop handle, painted with a Chinaman and attendants standing before a fence and with branches of flowering peony and prunus below a trellis band reserved with single flowerheads, the silver-gilt hinged cover set with a silver thaler of George Ludwig, Electory of Saxony, dated 1707 encircled by eight smaller coins dated 1708 within a shaped gadrooned border, the thumb rest as split scrolls, the footrim mount as chased stiff leaftips
7in. (19cm.) high