A MEISSEN (MARCOLINI) BLUE GROUND EWER AND BASIN for the Turkish market, the pear-shaped ewer with hinged metal-mounted domed cover, double scroll-moulded handle and foliage moulded curved spout joined to the neck by a foliage bridge, painted with bouquets within gilt oval medallions surrounded by a wreath of garden flowers tied by gilt ribbon, the lower part and the underside of the basin with alternate white and yellow gadroons painted with flowers, the interior of the basin similarly painted, the rim with moulded ovolo ornament (crack and repair to neck, minute chip to spout, the basin with crack to base), blue crossed swords and star marks, Pressnummer 3 to ewer, 24 and 2 to basin, painter's 51. to basin, circa 1790