
Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
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Department Director

Head of Department, Director
Provenance:
The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden;
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 10 December 1974, lot 123;
Private Collection, Germany, sold by Sotheby's London, 24 November 1998, lot 26
Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 160
The shape and decoration of all these Kakiemon type objects, including the present one, are faithfully copied from a Japanese Kakiemon original. (den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, 2000, p. 251).
Closely related cups and saucers are in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, 2000, nos. 180, 182), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung (Pietsch, Meissener Porzellane und seine Ostasiatischen Vorbilder, 1996, no. 26, Johanneumnummer 362), Hoffmeister Collection Hamburg, until 2009, teabowl, (Hoffmeister Collection Catalogue 1999, vol. I, no. 41).