A Meissen tankard, circa 1725, with German silver-gilt mounts, Johann Erhard Heuglin II, Augsburg, circa 1721-25

painted in the manner of Johann Gregorius Höroldt, with a large chinoiserie scene of scholars and their assistants, within a frame filled with Böttger lustre picked out in gilding, embellished with iron-red scrollwork, flanked on either side with a branch of indianische Blumen, the handle also painted with a small branch, with a gilded band at the rims and a gilded scroll band at the top rim, the mount with chased régence ornament on matting interrupted by medallions, reserving a central quatrefoil cartouche of a figure representing Africa seated on a lion, with a thumb piece terminating in two lion heads,

Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, p. 32

Overall in good condition with very minor wear to the gliding. There are traces of re-gilding to the band at the footrim, and to the band and scroll border at the top rim.
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