Meissen 1721/22; before the introduction of the swords mark
Silver lid with Saxon coin from the reign of King Friedrich August III
. 1741
H. 16.8 cm (6⅝ in.) / 18.5 cm (7¼ in.) with lid
Published in Langeloh anniversary catalogue 2019 no. 105 pp. 558–567
This tankard belongs to a small, exquisite group of about 15 known Meissen porcelains from the early 1720s, which Schnorr von Carolsfeld attributed to the painter Christoph Horn in his preface to the catalogue of the Margarete and Franz Oppenheimer Collection.
In addition to ours, there are only 5 other Horn tankards:
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Walcha, Otto: Meißner Porzellan. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Dresden 1973
Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Ludwig: Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer. Privatdruck, Berlin 1927
Zimmermann, Ernst: Dresdener Fayencen. in der Cicerone 6/1911, S. 205 – 217