A Meissen sauceboat, circa 1745-50Moulded with 'Gotzkowsky Relief' of flower panels and shells below the rim and handle, finely painted with flower sprigs, insects and beetles, a butterfly to the interior, the scroll handle embellished in purple and gilding and with a shell thumbpiece, gilt-edged rims, 15.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (restored narrow flat chip to rim)注脚Several services decorated in this style were made during the second half of the 1740s, including in 1747 a dessert service for Louis XV and an extensive dinner and dessert service for the Marquis d'Argenson; the description of the latter corresponds to the decoration on the present lot - see S. Schwartz/J. Munger, Gifts of Meissen Porcelain to the French Court, 1728-50, in M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy (2008), p. 153.