Artist: Royal-Polish And Electoral-Saxon Porcelain Manufactory
Date: 1725
Size: 8 x 5 cm
Museum: Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art (Toronto, Canada)
Technique: Porcelain
An early Meissen pilgrim-flask scent bottle with contemporary silver-mounts. The masks are enriched in colours and gold. The sides, painted by J. G. Mehlhorn, have ships in a tropical anchorage with palm trees. The gadroons to the neck and lower part are enriched in iron-red, puce and gold. The contemporary silver-gilt mounts have beaded borders and stiff-leaves to the foot rim and chain attachment.
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