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A rare Meissen waste bowl, circa 1730-35 image 1

Lot 52

A rare Meissen waste bowl, circa 1730-35

Fine European Ceramics

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

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A rare Meissen waste bowl, circa 1730-35

Painted in Kakiemon style with a phoenix in flight on each side, alternating with a flowering branch, two small blooms inside, concentric iron-red circles around the inside of the rim, 9.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, painter's mark (? 9 in iron-red, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=502-/ W (restored haircrack to rim)

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Provenance:
Meissen Manufactory warehouse to 1743, thence to the Japanese Palace, Dresden

One of a group of experimental or sample bowls decorated with variations of Kakiemon patterns that remained in the Meissen manufactory until 1743, when they were transferred to the Japanese Palace.

The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists under 502: "Fünf und Fünfzig schlechte SpühlCompen, differenter Größ und Mahlerey" [fifty-five flawed bowls, different sizes and painting] (quoted by Claus Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (1996), p. 67. Boltz illustrates three warped bowls with different Kakiemon-style decoration bearing the same inventory number 502 (two in the Dresden porcelain collection and one in the Franks Collection, British Museum, ills. 47-50). Other warped bowls with different Kakiemon-style patterns and the same Japanese Palace inventory number 502 are in the Hans Syz Collection (Hans Syz et al., Catalogue (1979), no. 102) and the Malcolm Gutter Collection (M. Santangelo, A Princely Pursuit (2018), cat. no. 78). All these bowls, as well as the present lot, have iron-red concentric circles inside the rim, and warping, in common. The crossed swords marks are in both underglaze-blue and purple enamel.

Boltz observes that the relatively high inventory number for such warped early porcelain suggests that they were were part of a delivery of porcelain from the manufactory warehouse to the Japanese Palace in 1743 intended to free up space in the warehouse. The correspondence in June 1743 (quoted on p. 99) specifies porcelain that had been made in earlier years as trial pieces that could not be sold, as well as pieces with faults, those for displaying high up as well as pieces made for other unspecified uses.

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