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Lot 165

A Meissen bowl and cover from the "Gelber Löwe" service for the Saxon/Polish court, circa 1734

14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

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A Meissen bowl and cover from the "Gelber Löwe" service for the Saxon/Polish court, circa 1734

Painted in Kakiemon style with two vignettes each depicting a tiger curling around bamboo, and flowering prunus branches, the cover with an artichoke finial and brown-edged rim, 18.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, K. in black (chip to tip of finial, enamels somewhat misfired on cover) (2)

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Provenance:
British Private Collection, assembled in the 1950s and 1960s

A delivery list to the Japanese Palace of 1734 includes additions to the "Gelber Löwe" service, including 6 circular tureens without handles (quoted by J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern (2013), I, p. 156).

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