A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A CHINESE WAITER modelled by P. Reinicke, in a fluted white and gilt hat, long blue-lined jacket with puce foliage and gilt dots, white trousers and yellow shoes, holding an oval tray with a beaker of chocolate and standing before a tree-stump, on a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to sleeves, hands, tray and his left foot, his left thumb lacking, chip to beaker and slight cracks to back and tree-stump), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1745, the decoration later