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Lot 17

A large Meissen saucer
circa 1730

25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A large Meissen saucer

circa 1730
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).

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