Meissen Liqueur Barrel

Important Early Meissen Liqueur Barrel

Of barrel shape. The barrel with a purple fond, subdivide with golden lines, ten polylobed cartouches, two decorated with Kauffahrtei scenes in grisaille, four cartouches decorated with Kauffahrtei scenes in monochrome iron-red, four cartouches, decorated with Kauffahrtei scenes as well, in polychrome colors.

The front and the back side decorated with Chinese noblemen, Chinese merchants and worker in Asian harbors with ships at sea, mountainous landscape with exotic vegetation with palm trees.

The decoration executed in best quality in polychrome colors by the famous artist Christian Friedrich Herold.

On the top a sitting putto symbolizing Bacchus with wine leaves and grapes, sitting on a brass square.

At the front a bronze tap. The barrel standing on a brass stand.

The brass square, the tap and the stand later.
 

Swordmark

Meissen abt. 1738

Dimensions:

Height: 21 cm, Length: 16 cm, Diameter: 13 cm


Literature:

• La Porcelana de Meissen en la Colección Britzke, page 94

• Meissener Porzellan – von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart – Otto Walcha, ill. 60

• Triumph Der Blauen Schwerter – Meissener Porzellan für Adel und Bürgertum 1710-1815, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, ill. 63, page 196

• Johann Gregorius Höroldt, Richard Seyffarth, ill. 78