On a round rocky base with overlaid floral vines, there is a fully plastic, crowing rooster with finely reliefed plumage. Sitting on top of it is a young Chinese man with a flower-shaped hat as a removable lid. The open beak serves as a spout. Polychrome painting with gold contouring. Either J.J. Kaendler, 1737. Model number 65517. Sword mark. Height 22 cm. Originally intended as a spice container for a multi-part table centerpiece with a central main piece, the so-called lemon basket with various Chinese figures, designed for the later Saxon Prime Minister Heinrich Count von Bruhl. See Pietzsch, catalog Swanservice, number 153, 155. A porcelain oil jug with a figure of a Chinese riding on a rooster. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. 1995.
