Potpourri lid container with plastic snowball decoration.

Depressed, spherical body with a curved, externally barely visible pierced lid, centrally adorned with a large vine-shaped knob. On the body and lid, densely applied plastic snowball flowers, individually embossed and intertwined with leaf tendrils. Polychrome painting. Gold rim. Either by Johann Joachim Kaendler. Miniature. Damaged; blurred crossed swords mark. Height: 14 cm. See Jedding, Meissen Porcelain, Fig. 151; Rueckert, Catalogue Bayer National Museum, No. 606, 681. A lidded potpourri porcelain box with "Schneeballen" decor. Minor chipped. Blurred crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1740-1745.