Chronos, the god of time and decay sits on a cloud base holding an oval medallion in his hands on which is depicted a Dutch polychrome-painted winter landscape with skaters and a horse-drawn sleigh with a coachman, to one side a genius, holding a jug and goblet with cover in her hands, to obverse and reverse of base icicles and clouds, beneath which gilt-accented rocailles and reserves, to the obverse polychrome-painted snowy landscape, 2 gentlemen and 1 lady, to the reverse bouquet of flowers, to either side green sculptural vine tendrils, stepped base with fine and wide gilt rim, yellow metal mounts, height 34.5 cm, some restoration, Meissen, underglaze blue sword mark circa 1765, model by J. J. Kändler 1755-1760 (Ru)

Lit.: Triumph der blauen Schwerter, Meissener Porzellan für Adel und Bürgertum 1710-1825, Dresden 2010, p. 349, ill. cat. no. 414 ff, from the series The Four Seasons, Stiftung Preußischer Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam, inv. no. XII 67, spring and winter;
Lit.: Keramos, no. 208, April 2010, Samuel Wittwer, “the King of Prussia was very desirous that various orders be speedily executed” - Friedrich der Große und das Meißener Porzellan, p. 37, ill. 16, Winter, after Charles LeBrun, model 1755, this firing probably circa 1760, SPSG;