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A Meissen cup and saucer from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730 image 1
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A Meissen cup and saucer from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730 image 5
Lot 29*

2 May 2013, 13:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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A Meissen cup and saucer from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730

Of barbed quatrefoil form, painted in Kakiemon style with an iron-red and gilt phoenix and a coloured sprig of indianische Blumen, the cup: 5.5cm high; the saucer: 13cm diam., crossed swords marks in blue enamel, incised Japanese Palace inventory numbers N=365-/ W (restored rim chip to saucer and cup) (2)

Footnotes

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 168

The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists sixty-four cups and sixty-three of this type ('geschwiffte Theé Tassen, mit einem Henckel, mit Rothen Vögeln und Blümgen gemahlt [...] detto Unterschaalen') under no. 365 (quoted by Claus Boltz, Japanaisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769. Keramos 153 (1996), p. 58.

Another cup of the same shape from the Kahlenberg Collection was sold in these rooms, 12 December 2012, lot 29.

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