Meissen vase with a lid, decorated with a lizard and floral ornament.

In blue painting, on the displayed stand, a bottle-shaped, compressed spherical body with a separated shoulder, cylindrical, long neck, and a slightly flared rim. A protruding, vaulted lid with a spherical knob. At the junction with the neck, a fully sculpted lizard. On all sides of the body, large, arranged flowering chrysanthemum branches, surrounded by birds and butterflies in blue underglaze painting. A border of half-flowers and pearl pendants framing the rim. A corresponding border on the lid. Year mark. Swords mark. Height 24 cm. A new form based on an early, developed around 1725, Meissen vase form in Chinese style, recorded as "Eight pieces of ditto blue and white bottles with long necks and lids, on each bottle a lizard." On July 13, 1726, eight pieces, intended for a mantelpiece, were delivered to the royal court of Augustus the Strong. See exhibition catalog. Meissen Blue Painting,

State Art Collections Dresden, 1989, p. 17, no. 9, SKD, inv. no. PE 5584 a, b; Pietsch, Triumph of the Blue Swords, no. 214. Porcelain vase with a lid featuring an attached lizard, painted with flowers, birds, and butterflies in underglaze blue. Year mark. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. 2009.