The scene on the cover is derived from Jacob Andreas Friedrich’s engraving after Georg Philip Rugendas’s Reiterkampf mit zwei Geharnischten from the Cavalry Combat Series. For an illustration of the print in the Meissen Archive, see Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Dresden, 2018, vol. 2, p. 356. Rugendas’s dramatic battle scenes were hugely popular at Meissen; the 1846 inventory of prints owned by the manufactory records that there were 182 prints of Rugendas’s work, see Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ‘Graphic Sources for Meissen Porcelain; Origins of the Print Collection in the Meissen Archives’ in The Metropolitan Museum Journal 31, 1996, p. 126.
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Overall good condition; some scattered scratches; the interior also with a tiny flake to the enamel at the lower edge. No chromium was found in the green enamels during XRF testing.
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