A Meissen porcelain oval sugar box and cover, circa 1730

painted with a continuous scene of merchants and their wares on quaysides with buildings and mountains in the distance, between gilt band borders, the cover with three figures in conversation, with buildings and ships on the river beyond, within an oval gilt-scroll-edged panel with Böttger lustre panels, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, numeral 53. in gilding to both pieces

Length 12.2 cm; 4 ¾ in