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A Meissen cup and saucer circa 1730-35
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Of lobed form with barbed rims, painted in Kakiemon style with a bird in flight and a sprig of indianische Blumen, the saucer: 13.8cm wide; the cup: 5.4cm high, crossed swords marks in blue enamel (saucer) and underglaze-blue (cup) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1991
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 124
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Two similar cups and saucers with blue enamel crossed swords marks in the Grassi Museum, Leipzig, are marked with the Japanese Palace inventory number 'N=365-' (Gielke 2003, nos. 54 and 55). The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace (published by Boltz 1996, p. 58), lists under no. 365: 'Fünf Dutzend und 4. Stück ovale geschweiffte Thée Tassen, mit einem Henkel, mit rothen Vögeln und Blümgen gemahlt, 2. Zoll tief, 3 1/4 Zoll in Diam: und Fünf Dutzend und 3. Stück detto Unterschaalen, 1. Zoll tief, 5 3/4. Zoll lang, 5 3/4. Zoll in Diam: No. 365' (five dozen and four oval wavy tea cups, with one handle, painted with red birds and flowers [...]: and five dozen and three similar saucers...).
