A MEISSEN CREAM-POT, COVER AND STAND of squat baluster form with foliage-moulded gilt spout, scroll handle and three gilt-enriched paw feet, the sides and stand painted with merchants on quaysides besides bales of cargo and at discussion and with ships at sail beneath a cloudy sky with hill towns in the distance, within elaborate purple, iron-red and gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk, Böttger lustre cartouches, the cover similarly decorated with three panels, the cream-pot with indianische Blumen beneath the spout and flanking the handle and to the underside of the stand, the stand with an elaborate gilt strapwork and foliage border (rim chip restored to spout, one foot restored, another chipped, the stand with restored rim chips to underside, the cover with a minute rim chip, slight rubbing to gilt rims) blue crossed swords marks, gilder's t. to base and stand and 5. to cover, Dreher's to stand, circa 1728