A Continental porcelain thistle-shaped jar and cover painted in a Meissen style with a continuous scene of merchants in conversation before a harbour, the cover with similar decoration below scrolling gilt borders, the lower section painted with arcaded panels in iron-red and in purple with figures and landscape (restoration and wear) gilder's marks, 19th Century -- 7¼in. high

A Continental porcelain thistle-shaped jar and cover painted in a Meissen style with a continuous scene of merchants in conversation before a harbour, the cover with similar decoration below scrolling gilt borders, the lower section painted with arcaded panels in iron-red and in purple with figures and landscape (restoration and wear) gilder's marks, 19th Century -- 7¼in. high

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