A Meissen beaker and saucer circa 1735
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A Meissen lobed beaker and saucer from the Japanese Palace, circa 1735
Painted in Kakiemon style with a large flowering branch and a smaller sprig, the barbed rims edged in brown, the beaker: 7.1cm high; the saucer: 14.7cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised Japanese Palace inventory numbers N=445/ W to both (2)
Estimate:
£4,000 - 6,000
€4,700 - 7,000
US$ 6,000 - 9,100

Footnotes

  • Literature:
    Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 172

    A similar lobed beaker and saucer is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, published by Lydia Liackhova, The Myth of the Orient: Eastern Subjects in Early Meissen Porcelain [trans.] (2007), no. 60.

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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