A Meissen hexagonal tea canister and cover, circa 1730Decorated with panels of purple lustre with a gilt trellis pattern and reserved with a chrysanthemum, alternating with two panels of flowering leafy branches and one with a small hedge with flowers and flowering branches pendent from the top rim, the panels divided by iron-red lines, a an iron-red band reserved with floral scrollwork around the foot, the cover similarly decorated with a gilt finial, 11.5cm high, crossed swords mark in blue enamel (minor restoration to footrim) (2)注脚A similarly decorated teapot and cover was sold by Sotheby's London, 8 July 1997, lot 35.