Vase with Lid, c. 1755
Made by the Meissen porcelain factory, Meissen, Germany, German
Hard-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
Height: 16 1/2 inches (41.9 cm)
Bequest of Rita Markus in memory of Frits Markus, 2005
2005-105-33a,b
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Vase with Lid

This large vase was made at the Meissen porcelain factory, the factory founded in Dresden by the royal decree of August II (the Strong), elector of Saxony and king of Poland (1670–1733) in 1710. In the eighteenth century, the Meissen factory produced both utilitarian and decorative objects from the smallest snuff boxes to life–size figures of animals—such as the pair of porcelain goats in the Museum’s collection—to large dinner services. Many of the decorative styles employed by the factory reflected the current fashions for such things as Asian art and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings. The decoration on this vase, a scene of three men drinking at an outdoor table, is in a style popularized by the Flemish painter David Teniers II (1610–1690), whose work was much sought after in the eighteenth century.