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This saucer belongs to a small group of early Meissen teabowls and saucers with European subjects, notably with interior scenes, at least some of which depict a narrative across the pieces of a service. Of these, several pieces are recorded from a service with gilt scrollwork borders (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain (2008), no. 70), as well as two other saucers with plain gilt rims similar to the present lot but with slightly differing cartouches (C. Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, II (2018), nos. 294a and b). The scenes appear to be based on various unrelated engraved sources, notably Albrecht Schmidt's designs for snuff boxes (Bodinek, nos. 294-296).