A Meissen porcelain waste bowl, circa 1730

painted on each side with a quayside scene of merchants and their wares and ships on the water, within a quatrefoil cartouche with lustre panels and issuing purple and iron-red scrolls, flanked by indianische Blumen, the interior with a similar cartouche with a purple monochrome harbourside scene, below a gilt lacework border, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, numeral 25. in gilding, incised / to footrim

Diameter 17.9 cm; 7 in