Meissen cachepot with miner's decoration A bulbous, quatrefoil body with a flaring rim on a moulded round foot. Laterally extended handles with cartouche-shaped base. Scenes from the life of Saxon miners on both sides of the wall. The front with a cut-out depiction of miners at work in an underground mine with a winding shaft, above a green landscape with a hut village. On the reverse a motif of a miner standing in front of a barrel. Scattered scattered flowers all round. Polychrome painting with gold staffage. Fire crack. Centreboard mark. H. 16.5 cm. Mouth d. 16 cm. Cf. Fabian, Meissener Porzellan mit Bergmannsmotiven, ill. p. 93ff. A porcelain cachepot with figural scenes of the Saxon miner's life. Firing crack. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1750.