A rare early Meissen octagonal sugar box and cover, circa 1723A rare early Meissen octagonal sugar box and cover, circa 1723The box painted with a continuous polychrome landscape scene of rocky mountains, trees and a lake, gilt bands to the foot and below the rim, the cover similarly decorated with three figures of peasants in a landscape, surrounded by a band of scattered iron-red flowerheads and a wide gilt border, the finial with gilt bands, 11.3cm long both with lustre mark 4 to inside (some rubbing to gilding on cover) (2)The style of decoration is closely similar to a teapot and cover with 'MPM' mark in the Wark Collection and both probably originally belonged to the same service (see U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection (2011), no. 102.