11. Boîte couverte à thé rectangulaire en porcelaine de Meissen, circa 1735 A Meissen rectangular tea canister and a matched cover, circa 1735 Painted with a continuous chinoiserie scene depicting figures seated at a table beneath a palm tree on one side, and another being carried in a sedan chair, flanked by flowers and with insects in flight overhead, below a gilt border with trellis panels and scrollwork, enclosing on the top chrysanthemums reserved on a trelis ground, the cover with gilt scrollwork filled with Boettger lustre and a gilt border, 10.5cm high, crossed swords mark in blue, gilt numerals 13. (the canister) and 23. (the cover) (2) Provenance: Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 2 March 1994, lot 17