Painted by Jakob Helchis in Schwarzlot, the cover with a continuous landscape scene depicting four putti playing by classical vases and architectural fragments, signed 'Jacobus Helchis fecit', surmounted by a gilt finial, the ecuelle with a continuous scene depicting figures in a rocky wooded landscape with fortified buildings in the distance and applied with gilt figural handles, the stand with a large circular scene depicting a putto seated by trees looking through a telescope in the foreground, with two seated figures and a village in the distance, the shaped, gilt-edged rim with a scroll- and strapwork border enclosing trellis panels and heightened in gilding, the reverse of the stand with four flower sprigs, the ecuelle mounted on a high gilt-metal foot, the stand: 23.5cm across; the ecuelle: 21cm across handles, red-painted MAK inventory number Ke 7518.28970 (stand with haircrack to rim issuing from a flat chip on the reverse edge) (3)