Tankard ca. 1725-30 Meissen Manufactory German The Chinese and Japanese porcelains in the collection of August II (1670-1733), commonly known as Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony, king of Poland, provided a wealth of decorative styles and motifs for the painters at the Meissen factory to copy and reinterpret. Certain imported models were copied with great fidelity, but often the imported porcelains provided a decorative vocabulary from which motifs could be selected and combined for use in innovative ways. On this magnificent tankard, the depiction of large, sinuous lotus leaves derives directly from so-called famille verte porcelains made in China during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.1 Famille verte, a French term meaning “of the green family,” was first used in the late nineteenth century to describe a large group of Chinese porcelains in which a translucent green enamel dominates the palette.2 Other enamel colors, such as iron-red, yellow, blue, and bl

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Tankard ca. 1725-30 Meissen Manufactory German The Chinese and Japanese porcelains in the collection of August II (1670-1733), commonly known as Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony, king of Poland, provided a wealth of decorative styles and motifs for the painters at the Meissen factory to copy and reinterpret. Certain imported models were copied with great fidelity, but often the imported porcelains provided a decorative vocabulary from which motifs could be selected and combined for use in innovative ways. On this magnificent tankard, the depiction of large, sinuous lotus leaves derives directly from so-called famille verte porcelains made in China during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.1 Famille verte, a French term meaning “of the green family,” was first used in the late nineteenth century to describe a large group of Chinese porcelains in which a translucent green enamel dominates the palette.2 Other enamel colors, such as iron-red, yellow, blue, and bl

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