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Lot 47

A Meissen plate, circa 1730

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Meissen plate, circa 1730

Painted in Kakiemon style with a pheonix facing flowering peony branches issuing from banded hedges, the brown-edged rim painted with three flower sprigs, 21.2cm diam., crossed swords mark in blue enamel, erased Japanese Palace inventory mark

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Part of the order of Meissen porcelain mostly after Japanese originals for the Paris merchant Lemaire that was confiscated in April 1731 and subsequently incorporated in the Saxon royal collection in the Japanese Palace in Dresden. The inventory number on the present lot has been erased; others of this type were listed under numbers 41-44 and 66-69 (see J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Dekoren, vol. II (2013), p. 221).

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