A MEISSEN TWIN-HANDLED BEAKER, circa 1725-30, both sides finely painted with a chinoiserie landscape depicting oriental figures at various pursuits, within a gilt scrollwork quatrelobe cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with purple, iron-red and green scrollwork, with a gilt scroll- and strapwork border to the rim, 8.2cm high, gold numeral 1., impressed Dreher's mark .. inside the footrim for Johann Martin Kittel PROVENANCE: Private German collection. FOOTNOTES: For a twin-handled beaker with similar chinoiserie decoration see Ulrich Pietsch, ‘Johann Gregorius Horoldt 1696-1775’ (1996), pp.104-5, cat.82. Sketches of a similar figure to that on one side of the beaker can be found on plates 11, 12 and 15 of the Schulz Codex.