P046 – MEISSEN PALE BLUE-GROUND MILK JUG AND COVER

 

Circa 1740, blue crossed swords mark

Painted in the manner of Watteau with courting couples in landscapes within gilt foliate cartouches

4 ½ in. (11.4 cm.) high

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, pp. 172-173, fig. 75.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the Scott-Allen Collection at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1996

 

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” at The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art between June 1955 and May 1960