A Meissen Hausmaler tankard, circa 1720-25, with German silver-gilt mounts, Johann Erhard Heuglin II, Augsburg, circa 1724-28,

decorated in gilding in the Seuter workshop, Augsburg, with a vignette of five chinoiserie figures supported on a bracket, flanked on either side by a smaller vignette of figures, with scrollwork borders at the rims and a dentil border to the interior, the mount with chased régence ornament on matting interrupted by medallions, reserving a central quatrefoil cartouche of a figure representing Asia before a camel,

Some wear to gilding, particularly to the handle. Also to the footrim and around the edge where the rim of the cover rests. Small chip also to this edge. Some minor wear to the gilt chinoiserie decoration. Glaze blemish half way down handle. Some wear to the silver-gilt interior of cover. Minor wear to silver-gilt highlights.
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The silversmith Johann Erhard Heuglin II became a master in 1717.