A Meissen porcelain tea canister and cover circa 1750

the shoulders moulded with ozier-pattern, reserved with Böttger lustre and gilt cartouches painted with harbour and river scenes within puce scrollworks, further with scattered flowers, underglaze blue crossed swords mark, 14cm, 5 1/2 in , together with a shaped oval sweetmeat dish, painted with a hunting scene within a gilt cartouche, further with flowers and insects, gilder's and underglaze blue crossed swords mark, impressed number 30, 17.5cm, 6 3/4 in wide

Tea canister with some scratches to both panels and to flowers. Minor wear to gildng. Dish with some pin pricks to the gilding on the rim.Minor waer to gilding and black enamel to central frame.
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The collection was built by Dr Anton (Tonio) von Riedemann and his wife Marie-Harriet (May).  Tonio was the son of Wilhelm Anton Riedemann (1832-1920), a German businessman, entrepreneur and pioneer of the tanker industry, who merged his company with the Rockefellers’ Standard Oil Company  in 1863. The family was ennobled in 1917 by Emperor Wilhelm II. I n 1921, Tonio and May acquired the estate of St Charles Hall in Meggen (Swizterland) with its picturesque view on Lake Lucerne, and commissioned the architect Albert Frölich to build an entirely new Baroque style villa with the most modern technologies. Marie-Harriet, the daughter of a successful American lawyer, collected paintings Chinese and European porcelain and works of Art, and insisted on designing the vitrines in the St Charles Hall herself. After she passed away in 1933, the collection was dispersed among the heirs, a Madonna and Child by Maerten van Heemskerck going to  the National Gallery, Washington, while the house was  acquired in 1947 by Paul and Gertrud Fischbacher-Labhardt. It is now managed by a trust which has converted it into a venue for concerts and weddings.