Featured Need help once again! Leprechaun Cherub Dragon Compote?

Hi all. Just wondering if you could all help me identify another piece. Here is a compote standing at about 14 inches tall featuring a leprechaun a cherub, a dragon/griffin and a face. It is marked with an M. Does anyone have any ideas. Makers? Period? Style?

 

Not a leprechaun. You have a winged lion, not a dragon. Pan holding the bowl with the child. He's not a cherub, no wings. The face looks like the Green Man. Very odd symbology.

 

Utterly!

 

looks like a Schwarza-Saalbahn mark found here
https://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/germany/thuringia/schwarza-01/index.php
Can't see a crown mark with it though.
Just love it.
Cheers
Stephen

 

Agree with OBB's comments with just a couple of tweaks.

A griffin is part lion, part eagle, so griffin it is.

In this context, the child would be described as a putto.

Pan - or at least a satyr, but I agree probably Pan - echoes images of Hercules holding up the earth.

Along with the Green Man, it is indeed a very odd mix, although it tends toward a celebration of wine. Have seen vessels of similar shape made in precious metal with a section of polished nautilus shell for the bowl.

 

Child with no wings = putti

Amazing piece!

 

Putti remarkable!

 

Certainly the happiest Griffin I've ever seen! Ready to party!

 

Methinks perhaps he already has.

 

Haha
He's very expressive - love it!

 

WOW.....that's so kinda out there imagery !!!!!

 

1 little naked (or nearly so) wingless boy = a putto
2 or more of the same = putti.

 

Would that be called roaring drunk?

 

Roman satyr.

 

@Ownedbybear hi!

I think probably Bacchus, not Green Man



And hey, guess what?! According to Beveragedaily.com:

Bacchus is Back! Moderate wine worship may be good for your kidneys!

Why can't our organs agree on anything?

 

I don't think he's a griffin/gryphon. No beak. They have eagle heads and front claws, the rest being leonine. That fellow has a nose, teeth and paws on him.

 

He may well be Bacchus/Dionysus, that did cross my mind as those are vine leaves. In that case, the horned person would be a satyr. There are images of Bacchus/Dionysus with satyrs and putti. The winged lion would also make sense in that context.

 

This is supposed to be Meissen. As usual, Pinterest board does not link with source:



Oh, here we go:

https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2776B/lots/234

 

I don't really know who-all Bacchus hung out with, but he did seem to party with a winged lion... His transportation.

How interesting, @Bronwen
The two cups are so similar.