A MEISSEN ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND with pierced flat scroll handles with gilt foliage, painted with figures in estuary scenes by barrels with buildings and ships in the distance within gilt and puce Laub-und-Bandelwerk cartouches, the cover and stand with groups of purple chinoiserie figures, the centre and underside of the stand with indianische Blumen, the cover with coloured dragon finial with gilt wings (slight chip to finial), blue crossed swords marks, gilder's 4. to each piece, circa 1730