A MEISSEN (AUGUSTUS REX) POWDERED PURPLE-GROUND GOURD-SHAPED VASE with flared neck painted with Chinese families on terraces brewing tea and with bird lures, umbrellas and vases in landscapes with fences, palm trees and insects within gilt ogival cartouches, the rim with symmetrical gilt C-scroll, foliage and flowerheads (repaired firing fault to rim, slight footrim chips, some scratching inside rim), blue AR monogram mark, the porcelain circa 1730, the decoration later