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Lot 45*

A Meissen lobed beaker and saucer from the Japanese Palace, circa 1735

5 December 2012, 13:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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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)

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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.

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