A MEISSEN (AUGUSTUS REX) OVIFORM VASE with swelling flared neck, painted with chinoiserie figures in a fenced garden and flanking a brazier with a kettle among flowering shrubs with birds and insects above with an elaborate gilt scroll and foliage ombrierte cartouches joining two smaller cartouches similarly painted in purpurmalerei and with scattered deutsche Blumen, the underside of the top rim with gilt scrolls and foliage (chip to top rim with associated extended firing crack to neck, two chips to footrim), blue AR mark, Dreher's XII to footrim, the porcelain circa 1730 the decoration later