A LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN EWER EMBLEMATIC OF 'FIRE'

circa 1880, after the model by Johann Joachim Kändler (1706-1775), bearing blue crossed swords mark and incised numerals to the base, with a figured dragon handle surmounted by a putto, the body mounted with a seated figure of Vulcan and a youth carrying a torch, against a backdrop of an erupting volcano and fleeing fauna, 67cm high