A rare and Documentary Silver-Mounted Meissen Tankard

A rare and Documentary Silver-Mounted Meissen Tankard dated 1745, painted and signed by Johann Gottfried Nitzschner with a huge spray of European flowers.

Crossed Swords Mark in underglaze blue to the underside, pressnummer 20 and painter’s monogramm JGN in puce.

The silver-gilt mounts set with a Brunswick coin of 1688 and inscribed Hinrich Tamm / Anna Tammen/ HS 1745, maker’s mark PS struck twice.

The flowers will almost certainly be copied from the engravings of Johann Wilhelm Weinmann’s Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensberg in four volumes between 1737-1745.