A MEISSEN FAMILLE ROSE OVAL BUTTER-TUB AND COVER with pierced lug handles and elongated moulded gilt scroll and loop finial, painted after a Chinese original with flowering peony on a diaper-pattern scroll on a brown flower and whorl-pattern ground, the tub with moulded gilt line borders and the cover with gilt line rim (one handle broken and repaired), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 54, circa 1740