For sale is a really nice treat - a little pot with its original lid made during the very beginning of the Vienna factory around 1744. This piece is hand painted with two really detailed fruit still life scenes, two birds and a three butterflies as well as some nice puce trim to the edge as well as the spout and handle. Nice floral finial to the top. The scenes are amazingly well painted and even have the shadows underneath that one rarely ever sees except on Klinger pieces from about 1740. Some of the best painting I have ever come across! The pot is marked with the under glaze blue shield / beehive mark as shown. It displays perfectly from either side but does have a long hairline crack that goes from the underside up the handle side and even through the bottom end of the handle which I