porcelain, the bulging lid and body with wide and narrow gilt edging, 2 reserves containing hunting scenes after Johann Elias Ridinger, the lid with gilt finial, the facing side with a reserve containing a polychrome painted sylvan landscape and 2 mounted horsemen, hunting a fleeing stag, in the background a town and flat-topped hills, the reverse side with console with earth base and huntsman, at his feet 2 white and 1 brown hound, both scenes and the baluster with delicate decor, the shoulder, reserve, and finial with large gilt painted leaf- and strapwork in black shades, the facing side of the baluster with a reserve containing polychrome painted group of huntsmen, 1 mounted huntsman, 2 huntsman on foot, slaying a boar brought to bay by hounds, in the background a chateau, flat-topped hills, and 2 mounted huntsman, the reverse side with console and earth base, a huntsman smoking by a tree trunk, a hunting bag hanging from it, a beater with stick, in the foreground a dead stag and 5 hounds, the handle of Baroque form, wide and narrow gilt edging, gilt acanthus leaves, female heads with delicate painted décor, a blue cloth on the chest, the base with gilt mount, a moulded laurel wreath supported by 4 putti, volute feet and leaf rocailles, central fruit umbel and foliage wreath, height: 46 cm,
Meissen, blue crossed swords mid-19th cent., model no. E 163, model by Johann Joachim Kändler 1735–1740, after a painted décor by Johann Georg Heintze ca. 1740 (Ru)

Lit.: Porzellan Sammlung Dresden, Guide to the Permanent Exhibition Zwinger, 1998, p 176, ill. and text: “Signed porcelain décor make it possible to identify the style of the Meissen figure- and landscape painter Johann George Heintze. He is also a candidate as the painter of the hunting scenes in Saxon Switzerland with a depiction of Chateau Friedrichsburg, presumably modified by Johann Daniel Pöppelmann in 1731. It is surrounded by a wide elaborate cartouche outlined with leaf- and strapwork. The composition of the group of huntsmen in the foreground, slaying a boar brought to bay by hounds, recalls the copper engravings of Johann Elias Ridinger, as may the large format depiction of a huntsman with slain stag on the reverse side of the vase. From 1740, Heintze was in charge copper engraving collection at the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, which in 1742, acquired ninety Ridinger engravings. In 1748, Heintze was charged with improper conduct and illegal "Hausmalerei" (domestic painting) and imprisoned in Königsstein Fortress, where he nevertheless had to paint Meissen porcelain. In 1750, he escaped and was occasionally employed by the Wegely Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin."
Lit.: Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 1988, catalogue cover