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A large Meissen saucer circa 1730
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Painted in Kakiemon style with two quail flanked by flowering prunus and other flowers, brown-edged rim, 15cm diam., crossed swords mark in blue enamel, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=326-/ W
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden;
Acquired in 1979
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 120
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace records under no. 326 'Ein Dutzendt und 8. Stück runde Chocolaten Becher, mit bunten Blumen und Rebhünern, nebst Sieben dergleichen Unterschaalen ... die Schaalen 1 1/2. Zoll hoch, 6. Zoll in Diam (A dozen and eight round chocolate beakers, with coloured flowers and partridges, with seven similar saucers ... the saucers 1 1/2 Zoll high, 6 Zoll diam.) (quoted by Boltz 1996, p. 56).
