EARLY MEISSEN COMMEMORATIVE - Monumental Blanc de Chine Porcelain Group of a Musician playing his lute atop a rocky promontory, surrounded by four figures in diminishing sizes, a man and woman playing hide and seek (on the flanks), a soldier (behind) and a woman birdseller (in front), with applied blossoms and vegetation. This has the earliest crossed sword mark in pale blue, circa 1740s. 22" tall, 11 1/2" diam at base. Multiple breaks and losses.