Early Meissen tea caddy with landscape scenes.

Baluster-shaped with a stepped, flat shoulder and a short, cylindrical neck. Overarching round lid with gold ornamentation. Surrounding six recessed, profiled panels with figurative-rich landscape scenes featuring figural staffage, partially with riders, horse-drawn carts, and architectural backdrops in polychrome painting, possibly by Christian Friedrich Herold or Johann Georg Heintz. Profiled rim and shoulder gilded. Each with gold number "65". Sword mark in blue enamel. Height 10 cm. Compare to Pietzsch catalog, Wark collection, number 360ff; Pietzsch catalog, Carabelli collection, page 36; Jedding, page 137. A porcelain tea caddy with scenes of commerce and landscapes. Blue enamel crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1730.