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Lot 63

A Meissen Hausmaler tankard, third quarter 18th century

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen Hausmaler tankard, third quarter 18th century

Painted in the workship of F.F. Meyer of Pressnitz with a crowned armorial shield supported by a lion on a ledge with drapery inscribed 'JH', flanked by two landscape vignettes depicting Hanswirst figures with hounds, between bands of dense gilt foliate scrollwork, the handle edges in gilding, mounted with a later silver cover, 23cm high overall, crossed swords mark in blue (haircrack around top of handle)

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A similarly decorated tankard, with the same armorial was sold by Hugo Helbing, Munich, 8 May 1930, lot 82, and is published by G. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler, vol. II (1925), ills. 277-279.

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