An early Meissen saucer, circa 1723Painted with a chinoiserie scene of a man seated at a table smoking a pipe in a landscape, within two circular iron-red concentric lines, the rim gilt, 12.6cm diam., incised / inside footrim (three small chips to underside of rim)注脚The style of painting closely resembles that on an early teapot formerly in the collections of the Princes von Thurn und Taxis (published by U. Pietsch/K. Jacobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 2) and may be from the same service. The decoration on the saucer can be traced to a drawing from the Schulz Codex, Plate 3, where the seated man at a table filled with tea wares can be found (transposed) on the right-hand side.