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 polychromed sylvan landscapes and 2 horsemen hunting a stag, in the background a town and flat-topped mountains, the reverse side wearing a console with earth base and huntsman, at his feet 2 white and 1 brown hound, both scenes as well as the baluster decorated with delicate leaf- and strapwork, the shoulder, reserve, and finial with large gilt painted and shaded leaf- and strapwork, the facing side of the baluster with a reserve with polychromed group of huntsmen, 1 mounted huntsman, 2 on foot bringing down a boar held at bay by hounds, in the background a chateau, flanked by flat-topped mountains and 2 mounted huntsmen, the reverse side with a console with earth base, a smoking hunter leaning against a tree trunk, a satchel hanging next to him, a beater with stick, in the foreground the slain stag and 5 hounds, handle of Baroque form with wide and narrow gilt edging, gilt acanthus leaves, female heads with delicate flesh tones, a blue cloth across the chest, the plinth with gilt mount, the base with moulded laurel wreath supported by 4 putti, seated on 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 painted design by Johann Georg Heintze ca. 1740 (Ru)

Lit.: Porzellan Sammlung Dresden, guide to the permanent exhibition Zwinger, 1998, p 176, ill. and text:
“The signed porcelain decoration makes it possible to identify the style of the Meissen figure and landscape painter Johann George Heintze. He is a candidate for the hunting scenes against the background of a flat-topped mountain in Saxon Switzerland with a view of Schloss Friedrichsburg, presumably restructured in 1731 by Johann Daniel Pöppelmann, and outlined by a wide elaborate cartouche with leaf- and strapwork. The huntsmen group in the foreground bringing down the boar recalls the composition of a copper engraving by Johann Elias Ridinger. The large-scale representation of a huntsman with a slain stag on the reverse side is based on similar models. From 1740, Heintze was in charge of the manufactory's copper engraving collection, which in 1742 acquired ninety engravings by Ridinger. In 1748, Heintze was accused of improper conduct and practising prohibited private painting and imprisoned at the Königsstein Fortress, where he was expected to continue painting porcelain for the manufactory. In 1750, he managed to escape and subsequently worked for the Wegely Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin. Lit.: Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 1988, catalogue cover;