An extremely fine and rare Early Meissen, Silver Gilt Mounted, Covered Water or Wine Ewer, modelled by J.G.Ehder, of slender baluster shape, moulded in crisp low relief with ozier basket weave enclosing two quatrefoil rococo scrolled reserves showing courtly scenes in the style of Watteau of ladies and gentlemen in conversation within wooded landscapes and at the riverside, applied to one side with a scrolled handle with Frauenkopf upper thumb piece, modelled as a maiden looking to one side with plunging decolletage. The similarly moulded and decorated cover with rising rococo scrolled finial enriched with gilding.

Mark
Blue crossed swords mark in underglaze blue to the underside of the Ewer

Further Details
For a similar rare example see The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain circa 1710-1750. The model is derived from the most fashionable French silver of the period, where the silver gilt is French and, like the Arnhold example, most likely mounted in Paris circa 1756-62 by Eloy Brichard. The Taxa report for Ehder’s work for July 1745 states, ‘newly modelled in clay 1 handle with a woman’s head and ornament to an ewer’.