PERIOD: XVIIIeme
A MEISSEN GILT-METAL MOUNTED INSCRIBED CYLINDRICAL ETUI CIRCA 1760, THE MOUNT DATED 1763 Painted with an officer inspecting a farming couple's account before a haystack, the reverse with a farmer holding a cockerel before a cart of hay and the cover with the officer comforting the farmer's wife before a building, the reverse with the farmer offering the officer a drink, within gilt and blue scroll cartouches, flanked by scattered flowers, the top inscribed Wit/Dienen dem.K?nig, the base with Uns/Dienen Die/Ba?ern, the underside of the cover mount inscribed J. E. v: W. d: 11 Apr: 1763. (minute chip to upper rim, slight wear to enamels and gilding) 4 7/8 in. (12.2 cm.) long overall
PRIX: $6500
