PERIOD: 18th century
A MEISSEN GILT-METAL MOUNTED INSCRIBED CYLINDRICAL ETUI CIRCA 1760, THE MOUNT DATED 1763 Painted with an officer inspecting a farming couple's account before a haystack, the reverse with a farmer holding a cockerel before a cart of hay and the cover with the officer comforting the farmer's wife before a building, the reverse with the farmer offering the officer a drink, within gilt and blue scroll cartouches, flanked by scattered flowers, the top inscribed Wit/Dienen dem.K
PRIX: $6500