lidded jug with s-shaped handle, the body with two cartouches with city views in fine iron-red Camaieu painting framed by elaborate gilt lace borders, the lid with a gold-framed cartouche featuring a view of a castle or monastery complex, neck, handle and the upper and lower base of the handle also with rich gilt lace border, fire-gilt copper mount with shell-shaped thumb rest, porcelain, polychromed and gilt, height 19 cm, underglaze blue crossed swords mark, impressed number 21, gilt décor on the handle scuffed, firing crack to the bottom on the inside of the jug (GO)

The exquisitely painted city vedutas are characterised by both individual architectural details and a staffage of repeating pictorial formulas. The buildings in the left veduta, which were clearly executed separately, can be compared with the cityscape of Trier. Similar features include the arches of the Roman bridge with its gatehouses and further downstream the monastery complex of St. Martin with the adjacent arches of the river mill. On the right veduta, the prominent central tower is reminiscent of the steeple of the Church of Our Lady in Meissen and the building complex above the city is similar to Albrechtsburg Castle. Pear-shaped lidded jugs with or without a spout were referred to in records as table, wine, or water jugs (Claus Boltz 2002: ‘Die wöchentlichen Berichte über die Tätigkeit der Meissner Dreher und Former’, p. 142.). A comparable mounted lidded jug: ‘Bottengruber-Kanne’, Bavarian National Museum (Inv. No. 66/309), for the attribution to Franz Ferdinand Meyer: Teller Victoria & Albert Museum (Inv. No. C.236-1923).