细节
A Meissen porcelain chinoiserie sugar box and parcel-gilt silver cover
1725-1730, marked with underglaze blue crossed swords and Goldnummer 13., the later French silver cover with maker's mark with rac within a lozenge
The compressed globular body gilt and painted in colours with a continuous scene of Oriental figures at various pursuits, e.g: boiling water, drinking tea, flanked by palm trees and further with a dog, a lion, and a multitude of tiny insects, between gilt bands, the slightly domed cover incised with strapwork, the rim embossed with a classical ovolo band, with inverted urn-finial
13.2 cm. wide
See illustration