See Johann Kräftner et al., Baroque Luxury Porcelain, The Manufacturies of Du Paquier and of Carlo Ginori in Florence Lichtenstein Museum, Vienna, 10th November 2005 - 29th January 2006 Exhibition Catalogue (Munich, 2005), p. 349, pl. 193, for a teapot painted in puce with similar figures, and where Kräftner points out that members of the Court occasionally disguised themselves as rustic farmers. He also refers to the ball at the Balhaus on 27th February 1743, where Maria Theresa is recorded as having been disguised as a country woman (see G. Mraz, Maria Theresia [Munich, 1979], p. 152).