Monumental Meissen lidded vase with hunting scenes. after J. E. Ridinger Ovoid body over a flared round foot with rounded shoulder and offset, short neck. Domed, overhanging lid with gold-ornamented cone finial. Gold-contoured oval reserves surrounded by foliage on both sides of the wall and on the lid with stag hunting scenes against a forest backdrop after Johann Elias Ridinger. On the obverse, a large-scale scenic depiction of par force hunters on horseback and a pack of hunting hounds, taking down a red stag. After the model of Ridinger's engraving "The Stag presents himself, and fights off the Hounds!" (SKD, Kupferstich-Kabinett, inv. no. A 12282). The reverse depicts a scene with a stag struck down by hounds. In between a large branch of oak leaves in matt gold with a finely etched inner drawing. The lid with corresponding scene and hunting motif with French horn and hunting bag. Polychrome painting. Model no. 51115, crossed swords mark. H. 64 cm. Cf. Pietsch, Porzellan Parforce, fig. 6, p. 16. A monumental lidded porcelain vase finely painted with hunting scenes after engravings of J. E. Ridinger. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1973 - 1980.