A MEISSEN (AUGUSTUS REX) BEAKER-VASE painted in the manner of Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, in three sections, the flaring top painted with an exotic bird perched among trailing and flowering prunus, chrysanthemum and peony branches below a butterfly, the central bulging section with similar spreading branches issuing from rocks and a bird in flight and the cylindrical base with flowering branches between turquoise scale-pattern panels with flowerheads, blue AR mark, circa 1730